Healthcare Informatics: Into the 21st Century

Published by: Business Insights

Published: Feb. 1, 1999 - 130 Pages

Table of Contents

• Introduction to key aspects in healthcare informatics
  
• Market drivers
  
• Dampening factors on the development of healthcare informatics
  
• The different electronic channels for healthcare
  
• The impact of informatics on the pharmaceutical industry
  
• The healthcare information systems industry

Chapter 1 Introduction to key aspects in
healthcare informatics

• Summary
  
• Introduction
  
  • What exactly is healthcare informatics?
    
  • The scope of the report
  
  
  
• A brief history of healthcare informatics

Chapter 2 Market drivers

• Summary
  
• Introduction
  
• Push factors—demands that IT promises to fulfil
  
  • Cost containment within healthcare
    
  • New healthcare concepts
    
  • The need for increased efficiency
    
  • Consolidation within the healthcare industry
  
  
  
• Pull factors—enabling technologies
  
  • The evolution of the healthcare industry
    
  • Technological advancements

Chapter 3 Dampening factors on the development of healthcare informatics

• Summary
  
• Introduction
  
• The impact of the cultural environment
  
  • The US
    
  • The UK
    
  • France
    
  • Germany
    
  • Spain
    
  • A culturalcomparison
  
  
  
• The security issue—protecting the patient
  
  • The need for anonymity
    
  • Anonymity as a limit to data richness
    
  • Providing the legislative background
    
  • The need for a co-ordinated long term strategy
  
  
  
• Technical impediments and solutions
  
  • Heterogeneous standards
    
  • Electronic signatures
  
  
  
• Cost limitations

Chapter 4 The different electronic channels for healthcare

• Summary
  
• Introduction
  
• Electronic patient records
  
  • General characteristics of electronic patient records
    
  • Health cards
    
  • Summary of EPR applications
    
  • Enterprise-wide medical systems
    
  • Network-based initiatives
  
  
  
• Telemedicine
  
  • Basic concepts
    
  • Technologies used
    
  • Possibilities within telemedicine
  
  
  
• Disease management
  
  • The concept of disease management
    
  • The role of pharmaceutical companies
    
  • Information requirements
    
  • Disease management as a driver in the pharmaceutical industry
  
  
  
• Managed care—a framework for integrated healthcare delivery
  
  • Characteristic features of managed care
    
  • The role of IT
    
  • Case study: Kaiser Permanente and IBM
    
  • The drive towards integrated healthcare delivery networks
  
  
  
• The Internet—a platform for cybercare?
  
  • A valuable tool in healthcare
    
  • Benefits for the different segments
    
  • What about the reliability?

Chapter 5 The impact of informatics on the
pharmaceutical industry

• Summary
  
• The need to sustain profitability
  
  • Development of profitability within the pharmaceutical industry
    
  • The investment gap
  
  
  
• Application of informatics to the R&D process
  
  • Introduction
    
  • Improving the discovery phase with the help of IT
    
  • Optimising the clinical management phase
    
  • Accelerating the regulatory phase
    
  • A worked example of gains in time and money
  
  
  
• Benefits within other areas
  
  • Sales
    
  • Marketing
  
  
  
• Summary of the benefits of IT in the drug lifecycle
  
• Outlook for the pharmaceutical industry
  
  • The dawning of a new age?
    
  • Strategies for the future
    
  • A key to future success

Chapter 6 The healthcare information systems industry

• Summary
  
• Current technological needs
  
• The market segments of the healthcare information systems industry
  
  • Hospital information systems
    
  • Physician office systems
    
  • Payer focused systems
    
  • Systems operating on an enterprise-wide level
  
  
  
• Key players within the HIS industry
  
  • Strategic structure of the HIS industry
    
  • Company profile: HBOC—the market leader
    
  • Company profile:IDX—focusing on thephysician sector
  
  
  
• Outlook for the HIS industry
  
  • Current and emerging trends within the HIS industry
    
  • Strategies for success
    
  • New technological opportunities—object-oriented programming

Chapter 7 Appendix

• Primary research methodology
  
• Glossary
  
• Index

List of Tables

• Table 2.1: Health expenditure as a percentage of GDP, 1970-1997
  
• Table 4.2: Features of EPR systems
  
• Table 5.3: The use of IT in the drug lifecycle

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