As adoption of Electronic Health Record Systems (EHR-Ss) shifts from early adopters to mainstream, an increasingly large group of decision makers must assess what they want from EHR-Ss and how to go about making their choices. The purpose of this book is to inform that decision. This book explains typical needs of a variety of stakeholders, describes current and imminent technologies, and assesses the available evidence regarding issues in implementing and using EHR-Ss.

Divided into four important sections--Needs, Current State, Technology, and Going Forward--the book provides the background and general notions regarding the EHRS and lays out the framework; delves into the historical review; presents a high-level view of EHR systems, focused on the needs of different stakeholders in the health care and the health enterprise; offers practical views of existing systems and current (and short-term future) issues in specifying a EHR system and deciding how to approach the institution of such a system; deals with technology issues, from front- to back-end; and describes where we are and where we should be going with EHR systems.

Designed for use by chief information officers, chief medical informatics officers, medical liaisons to hospital systems, private practitioners, and business managers at academic and non-academic hospitals, care management organizations, and practices. The book could be used in any medical or health informatics course, at any level (undergrad, fellowship, MBA).

As adoption of Electronic Health Record Systems (EHR-Ss) shifts from early adopters to mainstream, an increasingly large group of decision makers must assess what they want from EHR-Ss and how to go about making their choices. The purpose of this book is to inform that decision. This book explains typical needs of a variety of stakeholders, describes current and imminent technologies, and assesses the available evidence regarding issues in implementing and using EHR-Ss.

Divided into four important sections--Needs, Current State, Technology, and Going Forward--the book provides the background and general notions regarding the EHRS and lays out the framework; delves into the historical review; presents a high-level view of EHR systems, focused on the needs of different stakeholders in the health care and the health enterprise; offers practical views of existing systems and current (and short-term future) issues in specifying a EHR system and deciding how to approach the institution of such a system; deals with technology issues, from front- to back-end; and describes where we are and where we should be going with EHR systems.

Designed for use by chief information officers, chief medical informatics officers, medical liaisons to hospital systems, private practitioners, and business managers at academic and non-academic hospitals, care management organizations, and practices. The book could be used in any medical or health informatics course, at any level (undergrad, fellowship, MBA).

ReVision: A Journal of Consciousness and Transformation Volume 30, Numbers 1 & 2 Double Issue: Revisioning...Envisioning Table of Contents: Bronson, Jackson-Paton, Jaenke, Kremer, Montouri, & Rubik: Statement from the Editors Jaenke: Editor's Essay: Earth, Dreams, Body Jackson-Paton: Editor's Essay: Rituals of Inquiry; or, Looking for 'Culture and Truth' Krippner & Feinstein: A Mythological Approach to Transpersonal Psycholtherapy Kremer: Northern Light Ancestors Castro de Ali: Artist in Residence Pelicci: Growth and Transformation among Women Healers Ferrer: Beyond Monogamy and Polyamory: A New Vision of Intimate Relationships for the Twenty-First Century Watson-Gegeo: Children With Knives: When Theory Becomes Ideology Slater: Are Boys Being Trained for Obsolescence? Mendenhall: A Radical Approach to Delinquency Reform Kesner & Pritzker: Therapeutic Horseback Riding With Children Placed In The Foster Care System Low: Creativity and Intention in Evolution Sheffield: Haiku and other poems This is the current issue of ReVision: A Journal of Consciousness and Transformation. We are publishing again, after a hiatus. Led by a new editorial board, ReVision publishes with a commitment to the future of humanity and the Earth, ReVision emphasizes the transformative dimensions of current and traditional thought and practice. ReVision advances inquiry and reflection especially focused on the fields presently identified as philosophy, religion, psychology, social theory, science, anthropology, education, organizational transformation, and the arts. We seek to explore new models of transdisciplinary, interdisciplinary, multicultural, dialogical, and socially engaged inquiry, frontier science, as well as ancient ways of knowing, and to bring such work to bear on what appear to be the fundamental issues of our times through a variety of written and artistic modalities. In the interests of renewal and fresh vision, we strive to engage in conversation a diversity of perspectives and discourses which have often been kept separate, including those identified with terms such as Western and Eastern; indigenous and nonindigenous; Northern and Southern; feminine and masculine; intellectual, practical, and spiritual; local and global; young and old.