In The History and Function of the Target Cities Management
Information Systems, you?ll travel to six major cities in the
"Target Cities" demonstration project sponsored by the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center for
Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT). You?ll see how treatment centers
are developing automated management information systems that have
been proven to more effectively and efficiently meet the needs of
patients requiring addiction recovery and treatment in large
metropolitan areas. Your understanding of what it takes to develop,
run, and maintain automated management information systems will
increase as you read these firsthand accounts of specialists who
have taken their own systems through the stages of initial
development, to ongoing maintenance, and to eventual evolution.The
History and Function of the Target Cities Management Information
Systems provides an excellent forum of discovery in which you have
everything you need to fully compare and contrast how various local
conditions have impacted the growth of these cities'information
systems and how individual problems can be solved. Several
real-world views of these and many other specific topics in these
metropolitan areas of the country are at your fingertips: how
central intake sites provide rapid assessment, referral, and care
management in Cleveland, Ohiofacilitating automated client
assessment, referral, and service tracking in Portland, Oregonhow
central intake units (CIUs) and a computerized management
information system (MIS) reduce barriers to treatment entry,
increase treatment retention, and support continued posttreatment
recovery in Dallas, Texasthe St. Louis, Missouri, information
system that was conceptualized and implemented statewidethe patient
tracking system (PTS) in New Orleans, Louisianalessons learned in
Detroit, Michigan, by staff using a management information system
with a terminal-host model and character-based user interfaceThis
is the only known published description of automated systems being
developed for the same purpose by different teams. Everyone,
especially hospital administrators, educators, and behavioral
health and computer professionals interested in the development of
automated medical records systems, will definitely want to access
the valuable information garnered from six important cities in The
History and Function of the Target Cities Management Information
Systems. By comparing and contrasting the true-to-life accounts of
these different cases, you?ll gain a richer, deeper understanding
of this type of software and system development process. You?ll
also acquire the insight necessary to spearhead the construction
and modification of an effective, efficient assessment and case
management system in your own city.
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