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Health Care Information Systems: A Practical Approach for Health Care Management

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I bought this book to help me transition into an executive position in healthcare IT management. I have 15 years total of deep backend UNIX, networking, database, and SOA experience. The last 5 years have been in IT leadership. My main goal for this (very expensive) book was to get an understanding of IT healthcare specific protocols and HIPPA IT compliance standards.

If you are in the same situation as me, then you will find 50% of this book useful. Chapters 1-3 and 9-10 deliver the information required for a seasoned IT veteran to make the "jump" to healthcare IT. All the other chapters cover executive level IT material at a very elementary level. Even though this material is healthcare related, it is all the very basics of creating business requirements, acquiring systems, and building out sustainable architectures (all "theory" discussions with no practical "bit level" concepts). One of the chapters is a review of basic computing principles (like TCP/IP stack and RDBMS definitions). If you have been in IT leadership before, this is nothing new and stuff you have learned through the school of hard knocks. For those of you who are studying for an entry level IT management position with ZERO technical experience, this is a great "book learning" book to protect you from sounding stupid in meetings.

Overall, the book accomplished the mission. Given that there is sparse material on the subject, it was worth the investment.

I brought this book for a class I am taking, but this is one book that will definitely stay in my library. Great information and very useful.

At first, and up to four days ago, I thought this book was dull, and poorly written.

But, while reviewing details and actually typing out answers to questions and terms at the end of the chapters, I became more interested in what these authors have to share.

As someone who reviews many books, I approached this book with mixed thoughts. The topic is great. The chapters cover a great deal about healthcare technology. But the writing is not so good. For example, the objectives at the beginning of each chapter start with things like, "To be able to ... " rather than just the action verbs.

There is also a great deal of redundancy in this book.

Yet, I will admit, the authors express some humor in a few of the sixteen chapters.

This book is very informative and good for a person trying to get a career in health care informatics industry.

It is complete vision of health care. Very good in the funcional point of view, I only missed some technology trends and european specificities.

This is a great book! I am excited about my class. My professor is actually co-author of the book. It is easy to read and follow.

I bought the book for my class at the University of Phoenix. Having this book helped me achive my learning objectives. This book is a good resource for required information for the class. Thanks to the autohrs and Amazon for being there to send me the book.

I think that it is awesome for me to be taking a class with the professor who actually wrote the text and I am excited about that. Just feel that it took way too long for the textbook to get to me. Seems like almost three weeks went by before I recieved it. I tryed to order it in a timely manner to ensure that I received it before the course started, but I still did not get it until two weeks after the semester had began. I emailed the seller to find out what was the hold-up, but never recieved a response.