Transforming Health Care through Information

Introduction: Case Studies in Technological Change GEMINI: The Life and Times of a Clinical Information System

Section I. Organizational Change
- The Web Center: A Case Study in Strategy and Power
- Computers for Kids: Not All Fun and Games
- Managing Change
- Managing Success: An Information System Dilemma at Great Plains Healthcare
Section II. Implementation
- Developing an Emergency Department Information System
- Implementation of OpChart in West Medical Building
- The Development of the Scientific Computing Center at Vanderbilt University
- Early Implementation Problems of an Integrated Information System Within the White Mountain University Health System
- Implementation of a Web Based Incident Reporting System at Legendary Health System
- Managing Change
Section III. Economics
- E3 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Catch 22: The Case of Utilization Management’s Return on Investment Evaluation
- Antimicrobial Utilization Program at the University of Central State Medical Center
- CM Healthcare System: The Case of the Well-Aggregated Patient Data
- Building Consensus: Quality Improvement at Vesalius Health System (VHS)
Section IV. Leadership Issues
- Strategic Informatics: Planning for the Future of AtlanticHealth
- Fix Pharmacy!- Showdown in the Heart of Texas
- Mission Valley Medical Center Physicians Group Practice: The Rumor
- The DNA Donation Project
- Who’s in Charge?- Section V. Organizational and Interpersonal Conflict
- The Chief Residents Dilemma
- Death of a Committee
- Whose Job is it Anyway?- Conflict and Leadership Change
- All for the want of a Plan
- Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail
- Founding Fathers Health Corporation: Idealism and the Bottom Line.