Transforming Health Care Through Information: Case Studies

Nancy Lorenzi, PhD, is a professor of Biomedical Informatics and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee. Joan S. Ash, PhD, is a professor of Medical Informatics and Outcomes Research at the Oregon Health and Science University Medical School, Portland Oregon. Jonathan Einbinder, MD, MPH is Corporate Manager in Quality Data Management at Partners Healthcare System, Wellesley, Massachusetts. Cindy Gadd, PhD is a professor in Informatics at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee. Laura Einbinder, MBA is a Consultant at Einbinder & Associates in Medfield, Massachusetts.

• Managing Change.- Back Breaking Work: Implementing a Spine Registry in an Orthopedic Clinic.- A RHIO Struggling to Form: Will it Get Off the Ground?.- A Rough Ride at the Theodore Roosevelt Cancer Center.- Implementation of an Electronic Prescription Writer in Ambulatory Care.- Online Health Care: A Classic Clash of Technology, People, and Processes.- Patient Safety.- A Dungeon of Dangerous Practices.- Different Sides of the Story.- Barcode Medication Administration Implementation in the FIAT Health System.- H.I.T. or Miss.- Organizational Impact and Evaluation.- The Implementation of Secure Messaging.- Who Moved My Clinic? Donnelly University Pediatric Rehabilitation: The Wheelchair Clinic.- OncoOrders: The Early Years.- Implementing a Computerized Triage System in the Emergency Department.- Medication Barcode Scanning: Code “Moo”: Dead COW.- Integration.- Project NEED: New Efficiency in an Emergency Department.- Digital Radiology Divide at McKinly.

From the reviews of the third edition: "This third edition of a useful overview of clinical informatics uses real life implementation cases and stories surrounding four major areas -- change management, patient safety, organizational impact and evaluation, and integration. ... The book is intended for healthcare professionals who are leading the transformation of healthcare by using information and knowledge. It is valuable not only for informatics clinicians, but also for anyone in healthcare, whether executives, managers, consultants, or students." (Katie Dejuras, Doody's Review Service, March, 2010)