Computerization Behavioral Healthcare: How to Enhance Clinical Practice, Management, and Communications (Jossey-Bass Managed Behavioral Healthcare Library) - Softcover

Trabin, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787902217 ISBN 13: 9780787902216

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1996

Synopsis

A Volume in the Jossey-Bass Managed Behavioral Healthcare Library

Offers comprehensive advice and practical guidelines on computerization that will fundamentally change the clinical practice, management, and communications of behavioral healthcare. Also provides suggestions for overcoming human resistance, and making a smooth transition from a traditional paper system to a high-tech computer operation.

About this title

About the Author

TOM TRABIN Ph.D., M.Sc.M., is vice president for informatics and outcomes initiatives for CentraLink and is associate editor of the journal Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow.

From the Back Cover

The Computerization of Behavioral Healthcare offers practical and comprehensive information about the computer technologies and trAnds that directly influence the clinical practice, management, and communications of behavioral health care.The editors gathered experts in the fields of clinical practice, health care administration, technological change, and public policy to develop this extremely useful, understandable resource. In nontechnical terms, the contributors demonstrate how computers and networked information systems help to contain costs, measure and improve clinical outcomes, and make any behavioral healthcare organization or practice more competitive in the marketplace. In addition, they offer down-to-earth suggestions for overcoming human resistance, and making a smooth transition from a traditional paper system to a high-tech computer operation.

From the Inside Flap

The Computerization of Behavioral Healthcare offers comprehensive advice and practical guidelines on computerization that will fundamentally change the clinical practice, management, and communications of behavioral healthcare. This essential resource is written in easy-to-understand language by experts in the field of clinical practice, healthcare administration, technological change, and public policy. In nontechnical terms, the authors demonstrate how computers and networked, interactive information systems help to contain costs, measure and improve clinical outcomes, and make any behavioral healthcare organization or practice more competitive in the marketplace.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787902217
• ISBN 13: 9780787902216
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 308