Abstract
It is a strange fact that the healthcare industry as a whole, which represents approximately 7% of the United States economy, and the behavioral healthcare industry in particular have been extraordinarily slow to adopt the use of information systems for the coordination and delivery of their chief service—patient care. Financial and administrative functions including human resources, billing, and claims handling have long been processed, at least in part, by computer. Even these business functions, however, largely proceed via written records and paper-based transactions with insurance companies and data clearinghouses.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Tang PC, Hammond WE. A progress report on computer-based patient records in the United States. In: Dick RS, Steen EB, Detmer DE, eds. The Computer-Based Patient Record: An Essential Technology for Health Care. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1997.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, Pub. Law No. 104–191; enacted August 21, 1996.
Psychiatric News 1999;34(2).
Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Secretary, Health Care Financing Administration. Electronic transactions: announcement of designated standard maintenance organizations: final rule and notice. Federal Register 2000;65(160). (Available on the Web at http://aspe.hhs.gov/admnsimp.)
Bulger RJ. 1987. The search for a new ideal. In: Bulger RJ, ed. In Search of the Modern Hippocrates. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 1987: 9–21.
AIDS Policy Law, 1996 Oct 18, 11: 19, 11.
Houston Chronicle,February 15, 1997, p. 15A.
Schneier B. Key length. In: Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms and Source Code in C. New York: Wiley
American National Standard for Data Encryption Algorithm (DEA). ANSI X3.92. Washington, DC: American National Standards Institute, 1981.
Kaufman C, Perlman R, Speciner M. Data encryption standard (DES). In: Network Security: PRIVATE Communications in a PUBLIC World. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall PTR, 1995.
O’Gorman L. Fingerprint verification. In: Biometrics: Personal Identification in Networked Society. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic, 1999: 43–64.
Federal Register 2000 V65 #250 Pg 82461–82510. Department of Health & Human Services “Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information”.
APA Fighting Accord for Better Medical-Record Privacy Rights“ December 3, 1999. Psychiatric News 1999;34(22):1.
National Resource Council. For the Record: Protecting Electronic Health Information. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1997.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2002 Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Olson, D. (2002). Technology Infrastructures. In: Dewan, N.A., Lorenzi, N.M., Riley, R.T., Bhattacharya, S.R. (eds) Behavorial Healthcare Informatics. Health Informatics Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21586-0_2
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21586-0_2
Publisher Name: Springer, New York, NY
Print ISBN: 978-0-387-95265-9
Online ISBN: 978-0-387-21586-0
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive