Information Networks for Community Health (Computers in Health Care) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0387946977 ISBN 13: 9780387946979

Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 2001

Synopsis

An examination of the various applications of information networks in community-based health care.

About this title

About the Author

Elizabeth M. Tornquist, MA, FAAN, has been a faculty member of the Schools of Nursing and Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is currently a visiting lecturer at the College of Nursing, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. She has taught scientific writing for nearly 40 years and has conducted numerous workshops for university faculty, health care clinicians, and scientists in industry on writing grant proposals, research and technical reports, and articles for publication. She is nationally known as an editor and has helped scientists from many disciplines write fundable grant proposals and publishable articles. In addition, she has authored two books and dozens of articles, and she co-edited three books in addition to those written with Dr. Funk.

Together, Dr. Funk and Ms. Tornquist have taught proposal writing courses and grant-writing institutes; been awarded grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Division of Nursing, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; developed a research utilization model; published a dozen refereed articles and edited six books (five of which were honored with AJN Book of the Year awards and two of which were republished in other languages).

From the Back Cover

'Information Networks for Community Health' discusses the technological, organizational, and legal challenges of constructing a technological infrastructure, and using such a community based computer system for health care.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387946977
• ISBN 13: 9780387946979
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 361
• Editor: Brennan P.F., Schneider S., Tornquist E.