This series of books focuses on highly specialized Emergency Management arrangements for healthcare facilities and organizations. It is designed to assist any healthcare executive with a body of knowledge which permits a transition into the application of emergency management planning and procedures for healthcare facilities and organizations.This series is intended for both experienced practitioners of both healthcare management and emergency management, and also for students of these two disciplines.

Leaders in healthcare today face many challenges ranging from managing interprofessional teams and teamwork, to payment reform, to tackling issues such as homelessness and the opioid crisis. Leaders have access to depth of information and resources to help them solve these complex and real-world problems. However, it is our belief that given the complexities of healthcare, there is value in sharing and learning from those who have first-hand experience with interprofessional leadership in healthcare. Challenges and Opportunities in Healthcare Leadership: Voices from the Crowd in Today's Complex and Interprofessional Healthcare Environment, is a volume in a book series titled, Contemporary Perspectives in Business Leadership. In this book, authors share their true, authentic reflections and professional stories describing the lived experience(s) of the author/leaders and how the experience changed the author/leaders' approach as an interprofessional leader. Each chapter includes a (1) story about the topic and the lived experience, (2) perspectives, and (3) lessons of the author(s). Additionally, scholarly commentary and discussion questions included within each chapter create opportunity for application to leadership theories and strategies as well as allow for reflection and further dialogue on the topic. The intended audience is broad, including faculty and students in institutions of higher education, interprofessional healthcare team leaders and members, and other healthcare stakeholders who have experience in interprofessional healthcare leadership. The book is applicable for leadership growth and development at a personal, group, or organizational level.

Die Proceedings der 35. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft fur Medizinische Dokumentation, Informatik und Statistik geben einen UEberblick uber die derzeit wichtigen Forschungsschwerpunkte der Epidemiologie. Dabei konnten zum ersten Mal auch Beitrage aus der ehemaligen DDR in groesserer Zahl eingebracht werden. Schwerpunkte des Proceedingsbandes bilden die Epidemiologie kardiovaskularer Erkrankungen, die Umweltepidemiologie, die Epidemiologie von Berufskrankheiten und das epidemiologische Monitoring von Krebserkrankungen und Infektionskrankheiten. Die Qualitat verfugbarer Datenquellen wird kritisch diskutiert und die Bedeutung der Epidemiologie fur eine Verbesserung der Gesundheitsberichterstattung in den alten und in den neuen Bundeslandern klargelegt. Daruber hinaus werden methodische Probleme und unterstutzende Techniken der Medizinischen Informatik angesprochen.

Der Tagungsband gibt einen Uberblick uber den gegenwartigen Stand der Forschung auf dem Gebiete der Mustererkennung vorwiegend im deutschsprachigen Raum. Er ist gegliedert in - Sensorgestaltung fur Zwecke der Mustererkennung - Wissen, neuronale Netze - Spracherkennung, Sprachverstehen - Grundlagen der Mustererkennung - Signalverarbeitung und Mustererkennung angepasst an gegebene Sensoreigenschaften - spezielle Hardwarearchitekturen - Softwarewerkzeuge und Umgebungen - medizinische Anwendungen - industrielle Anwendungen - Bildfolgen, Mehrfachbilder, Computervision. Die Autoren der einzelnen Beitrage haben die relevanten Ergebnisse in Diagrammen und Bildern dargestellt."

Der Proceedingsband enth{lt ausgew{hlte ausgew{hlte refe- rierte Aufs{tze sowohl zu innovativen Entwicklungen in den Disziplinen Biometrie und Medizinische Informatik als auch }ber den Einsatz bekannter, bew{hrter Konzepte aus diesen Fachbereichen in der Medizin. Behandelt werden spezielle Fragestellungen zu den Themen Epidemiologie, methodische Therapieforschung, Nachweis therapeutischer Oquivalenz, Dia- gnostik und Monitoring von Krankheitsprozessen, Modellierung biologischer Mechanismen, biometrische Methoden, medizini- sche Dokumentation, L-sungsans{tze f}r Informationssysteme, spezielle Hard- und Softwarel-sungen, Expertensysteme, Bild- kommunikation und Archivierung, Bilderzeugung, wissensba- sierte Bildinterpretation und 3-d Darstellungsverfahren.

This book provides an overview of the challenges in electronic health records (EHR) design and implementation along with an introduction to the best practices that have been identified over the past several years. The book examines concerns surrounding EHR use and proposes eight examples of proper EHR use. It discusses the complex strategic planning that accompanies the systemic organizational changes associated with EHR programs and highlights key lessons learned regarding health information including technology errors and risk management concerns."

Reflection is a process by which professionals consider experiences to gain insights about their practice. It supports people to continually improve the way they work and the care they provide, it allows for mistakes to be accepted and analysed rather than repeated, and it is encouraged by professional bodies wishing to foster improvements in services and continuous professional development. Specifically designed for staff working across health and social care, this self-development workbook guides users to reflect on experiences, focus their thoughts, generate new ideas about what good practice looks like, and understand the impact of their actions on others. Expert CQC inspector Terri Salt stresses that through careful reflection everyone in a service can make a difference - and that only when every member of staff seeks to do so can services move beyond the ordinary and start to become genuinely 'Outstanding'.

This series of books focuses on highly specialized Emergency Management arrangements for healthcare facilities and organizations. It is designed to assist any healthcare executive with a body of knowledge which permits a transition into the application of emergency management planning and procedures for healthcare facilities and organizations. This series is intended for both experienced practitioners of both healthcare management and emergency management, and also for students of these two disciplines.

As its name implies, this book deals with clinical inforrnation systems. The clinical inforrnation system (or CIS) is an automated system with a long term database containing clinical inforrnation used for patient care. This definition excludes business systems (no clinical data), physiological monitaring systems (no long terrn database), and many research systems (not used in patient care). The theses of this book are (a) that CIS technology is mature, (b) that the CIS will have a major impact upon patient care and the health delivery system, and ( c) that the number of commercial systems which now offer these potential benefits is very small. The objective of this book is to establish the above theses and thereby (a) inform both users and developers, (b) increase the demand for more sophisticated products, and finally, (c) provide marketplace incentives to advance the state of the art. The CIS is an application of computer technology for a specific class of problems. Its development requires a knowledge of the technology with an understanding of the application area. As with any tool-based application, the scope of the product will be limited by the capability of the tool. In the case of the CIS, reliable computers with comprehensive database facilities became com mercially available in the early 1970s. By the mid 1970s there was a maturation of the literature, and evaluations of 5-years' use began to appear. As will be shown, there have been surprisingly few new ideas introduced since the 1970s."

Die Schwarzung eines Rontgenfilms stellt ihrem Wesen nach das dokumen tierte und gespeicherte Ergebnis einer Photonen-Messung dar. Allerdings werden davon in der arztlichen Diagnostik bis auf den heutigen Tag ihre rein morphologischen Moglichkeiten, ihre qualitativen Proportionen und Relationen wei taus bevorzugt, wahrend die auch gegebenen 1Qglichkeiten quantitativer Analysen aus dem Zusarnrnenhang zwischen Rontgenstrahlung, durchstrahlter Materie und Filmschwarzung wie der sogenannten "nicht invasiven" oder "zerstorungsfreien" Konzentrationsbestirnmung geeig- neter Elemente im Gewebe des lebenden Organismus vergleichsweise sehr vernachllssigt erscheinen. Indessen besteht unzweifelhaft ein erheb- liches klinisches Interesse an der quantitativen Aussage aus dem Ront- genbild. uBerungen zum Mineralgehalt des Knochenskeletts, zum Grad der "Anfarbung" der Hohlsysteme kontrastmittelausscheidender Organe anlaB- lich der klinischen Rontgendemonstration durch den Radiologen gehoren zur Tagesordnung. Die Grenzen der konventionellen visuellen Beurteilung des Rontgenbil- des werden hier jedoch sehr rasch an den Kriterien der Reproduzierbar- keit [81, 105] und quantitativen Sensitivitat deutlich, wie das Bei- spiel eines Aussageversuchs tiber den Mineralgehalt des Knochens zeigt: 1m allgemeinen ist eine diffuse Entkalkung des Skeletts erst bei einer Verminderung des Mineralgehalts von mindestens 30%, in der Regel von 50 bis 60% rontgenologisch erkennbar [7, 8, 73, 119, 120, 238, 262].