Hospital Information Systems — The Next Generation, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992

Since the publication of Hospital Computer Systems, edited by Morris F. Collen in 1974, many reviews have appeared presenting sound analyses and evaluations of the of hospital information systems (HIS). Many of latest developments and design them were published within the IMIA Working Group 10 which is devoted to HIS but still an updated and critical overview was lacking which reviews what has been achieved since then and which also takes a inspired glance into the future. As the quotation from Romain Rolland introducing this latest work by Rudi van de Velde states "/ love and admire the past but I would like the future to be even better. " Hence, it is noteworthy to point out that this book includes topics ranging from "Trends in Medical Informatics, Setting the Scene" to "HIS in the Years Ahead" and dealing separately with hospital management concerns and medical applications. Hospital management is the field wholly supported by the HIS, since it deals with transactions issued by the team of patient care professionals about the patients and, as such, handles computer communications between the more or less autonomous substructures of the hospital, including central and costly resources such as laboratories, radiology departments and pharmacies, and links medical and administrative services (as Marion J. Ball already pointed out when she undertook to categorize the HIS).

1 Trends in Medical Informatics Setting the Scene.- 1 The Current Healthcare System: In a State of Transtition.- 2 Health Care Actors: Objectives and Requirements.- 3 The Genesis of Hospital Information Systems: A Look at the Past and the Future.- 4 Computer System Fundamentals.- 5 Standardization in Medical Informatics.- 6 Most Important Trends in the 1990s.- 7 Modelling Health Care Systems.- 8 The Make or Buy Decision.- 9 Computer Safety in Health Care Systems.- 2: Hospital Management Systems.- 10 Architecture of a Hospital Information System.- 11 The Patient Management Systems.- 12 Order Entry and Result Reporting Management Systems.- 13 Patient Appointment and Scheduling.- 14 Operating Theatre Management Information System.- 15 Automation in Nutrition.- 16 Laboratory Information Systems.- 17 Radiology Information Systems.- 18 Oncology Information Systems.- 19 Pharmacy Information Systems.- 20 Nursing Information Systems.- 21 Hospitals Financing: Challenges of the 1990s.- 3: Medical Computing Applications.- 22 Medical Data: Acquisition, Manipulation and Analysis.- 23 Automatization in Cardiology.- 24 Automatization in Pneumology.- 25 Patient Monitoring Systems.- 26 Computer Stored Medical Record Systems.- 27 Computer Assisted Clinical Decision Making.- 28 Medical Imaging.- 29 Imaging Management and Communication Systems in Medicine.- 30 The Era of Telemedicine.- 31 Computerized Surveillance System for Nosocomial Infections.- 4 Hospital Information Systems in the Years Ahead.- 32 Hospital Information Systems: The Future is Now!.- Acronyms.- References.