The Computerization of Behavioral Healthcare How to Enhance Clinical Practice, Management, and Communications

by Trabin, Tom; Freeman, Michael A.

• ISBN13: 9780787902216
• ISBN10: 0787902217
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-04-19
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

A Volume in the Jossey-Bass Managed Behavioral Healthcare Library Offers comprehensive advice and practical guidelines on computerization that will fundamentally change the clinical practice, management, and communications of behavioral healthcare. Also provides suggestions for overcoming human resistance, and making a smooth transition from a traditional paper system to a high-tech computer operation.

Author Biography

TOM TRABIN Ph.D., M.Sc.M., is vice president for informatics and outcomes initiatives for CentraLink and is associate editor of the journal Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Part One: Clinical Practice

1. How Information Technologies Are Transforming Behavioral Healthcare (Marion J. Ball, Judith V. Douglas)

2. Clinical Decision Support Systems(Wallace J. Gingerich, Anthony Brokowski)

3. The Use of Computers in Therapy(Roger L. Gould)

4. Clinical Assessment and Outcomes Measurement(Murray P. Naditch, Kevin L. Moreland)

Part Two: Management

5. The Transition from Paper to Computerized and Interactive Information Systems, (Larry D. Rosen, Michelle M. Weil)

6. Computerization in Group Practices(Peter S. Currie)

7. Computerization in County and Community Mental Health Centers(Tuan D. Nguyen, Gary Olsen)

8. Computerization in Hospital-Based Delivery Systems(Warner V. Slack, Charles Safran, Howard L. Bleich)

9. Computerization in Managed Behavioral Healthcare Companies( William R. Maloney, Eugene D. Hill III)

Part Three: Communications

10. The Need to Know vs. The Right to Privacy(Robert Gellman, Kathleen A. Frawley)

11. The Rapid Growth of Electronic Communication(Michael W. Hurst, William A. Roiter)

12. How to Use the Internet and Electronic Bulletin Boards( Dick Schoech, Katherine Kelley Smith)

13. The Past, Present, and Future of Data Standards(Ronald W. Manderscheid, Marilyn J. HAnderson)