Health Information Systems and Applications

Catalog description

Explores the use of information systems in different health care settings, analyzing operational and strategic objectives for their deployment. Emphasizes the analysis of the different factors that influence decision making during the process of design and deployment of systems, including human factors, hardware, software, policy, communications, and the successful management of such systems. Also covers guidelines for the design and successful deployment of systems to meet those objectives and includes discussion of architectures, components, and models. Analyzes specific case studies of successfully and unsuccessfully deployed systems.