Overview: theoretical perspectives and methodologies for the evaluation of healthcare information systems -- Qualitative research methods for evaluating computer information systems -- Multiple perspectives: evaluating healthcare information systems in collaborative environments -- Survey methods for assessing social impacts of computers in healthcare organizations -- Using the Internet for surveys and research -- Cognitive approaches to the evaluation of healthcare information systems -- Work-sampling: a statistical approach to evaluation of the effect of computers on work patterns in health care -- Evaluation of health informatics: social network analysis -- Evaluation in health informatics: computer simulation -- Computers in the consulting room: a case study of clinician and patient perspectives -- Introducing physician order entry at a major academic medical center, A: Impact on organizational culture and behavior, B: Impact on medical education -- Evaluating the capability of information technology to prevent adverse drug events: a computer simulation approach -- Implementing computers in ambulatory care: implications of physician practice patterns for system design -- Nursing documentation time during implementation of an electronic medical record -- Computer charting: an evaluation of a respiratory care computer system -- Research and evaluation: future directions
Summary
A guide for evaluating the organizational impacts of computer systems in health care institutions. This book is useful to physicians, nurses, health care administrators, information systems personnel and consultants who are involved in planning, developing, implementing, utilizing and evaluating computer-based health care systems