Behavioral Healthcare Informatics is an essential resource for
clinicians, information technology officers, and consumers, as well
as students and faculty in psychiatry, psychology, and social work
who need to know what is possible today and what lies ahead as
technology and behavioral healthcare care converge. Covering a full
range of areas from technology infrastructures to organizational
issues, this book fills the void this discipline has endured by
detailing hoe to improve information systems and facilitate the
transformation of data into knowledge, allowing information to be
organized and useful. Edited by leaders in the field of managed
healthcare, quality improvement, psychiatry, management, and
informatics, this book is a Amust readA in the field of health
informatics and should be a reference book for any personal,
public, or educational library. The book is divided into sections
serving as "module" for the reader. Topics include: - Emerging
clinical technologies in psychotherapy and medication and care
management - The impact of technology on quality in both public and
private sectors - Behavioral health consumerism and the Internet -
Organizational aspects of implementing informatics - Managing
clinical care in a pervasive computing environment About the
Authors: Naakesh A. Dewan, M.D.., is Adjunct Assistant Clinical
Professor and Executive Director of the Center for Quality
Innovations and Research in the Department of Psychiatry at the
University of Cincinnati. A noted scholar, consultant, and
executive in the field of behavioral health informatics and quality
improvement, Dr. Dewan has implemented and overseen
informatics-based quality-improvement systems in more than
150hospitals and managed-care organizations in his career. Dr.
Dewan is also the founding editor for iMcKessonAs patient education
software, the ABehavioral Health Advisor, A and sits on the board
of IHP, a leading provider of XML-based solutions for health care
and other industries. Dr. Dewan continues to practice both
emergency and community psychiatry in Cincinnati, Ohio. Nancy M.
Lorenzi, Ph.D., is a professor and Assistant Vice Chancellor for
Health Affairs at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Dr.
Lorenzi is a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics
and a board member of the American Medical Informatics Association
and the International Medical Informatics Association. Robert T.
Riley, Ph.D., is poresident of Riley Associates in Nashville,
Tennessee. Dr. Riley is renowned internationally for his skill in
translating management concepts for the technically educated
person. Dr. Riley and Dr. Lorenzi have coauthored a book for the
health informatics sector on managing technological change. Sarbori
R. Bhattacharya, M.D., is an Informatics and Quality Improvement
fellow at the Center for Quality Innovations and Research in the
Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio.
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