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Patient-Care Systems

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Biomedical Informatics

Part of the book series: Health Informatics ((HI))

Abstract

After reading this chapter, you should know the answers to these questions:

  • What are the four major information-management issues in patient care?

  • How have patient-care systems evolved during the past four decades?

  • How have patient-care systems influenced the process and outcomes of patient care?

  • Why are patient-care systems essential to the computer-based patient record?

  • How can they be differentiated from the computer-based patient record itself ?

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Graduate Program in Nursing Informatics, The University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA

    Judy G. Ozbolt

  2. School of Nursing, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10032, USA

    Suzanne Bakken

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  1. Judy G. Ozbolt
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, 10032-3720, USA

    Edward H. Shortliffe MD, PhD, MACP  & James J. Cimino MD, FACP  & 

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Ozbolt, J.G., Bakken, S. (2006). Patient-Care Systems. In: Shortliffe, E.H., Cimino, J.J. (eds) Biomedical Informatics. Health Informatics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-36278-9_16

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-36278-9_16

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