Correa: Getting Started in the Computerized Medical Office: Fundamentals & Practice 2nd Edition Includes MOSS 2.0

Getting Started in the Computerized Medical Office: Fundamentals and Practice 2nd Edition and the accompanying Medical Office Simulation Software 2.0 (MOSS 2.0) will help prepare your students to work with any practice management software used in medical offices today. The book follows the flow of information as patients are scheduled and seen in a medical office, through procedure posting, billing and collections. Content within the book is grouped by subject for easy reading, followed by immediate application of the concepts to the software.

Contents 

• Preface.
• 1. Introduction to Computers.
• 2. Medical Practice-Management Software.
• 3. Basic Management Concepts for Medical Administrative Staff.
• 4. Fundamentals of Medical Insurance.
• 5. Patient Registration and Data Entry.
• 6. Procedure Posting Routines.
• 7. Insurance Billing Routines.
• 8. Posting Payments and Secondary Insurance Billing.
• 9. Patient Billing and Collections.
• 10. Posting Secondary Insurance Payment and Electronic Remittance Advice Payments.
• 11. Insurance Claim Follow-Up and Dispute Resolution.
• Source Document Appendix.
• Glossary.
• Index.

Key Features

• Numerous screen shots help users check their work and complete each activity with confidence.
• Objectives at the beginning of each unit clearly specify the content to be learned and the skills that will be mastered using the software, where applicable. Each exercise has its own objective, giving the instructor and the learner direction on the purpose or desired outcome upon completion of the task.
• Exercises include step-by-step directions supported by many screen shots, showing how the screen should look before and after processing data, where applicable.
• Each unit ends with the Final Notes section, summarizing the material just learned, and relating it to the topic forthcoming in the next unit.
• Each unit provides a Check Your Knowledge review section to reinforce the topics learned.
• Together, the book and software provide approximately 30 hours of activity.

New to this edition

• New Workbook with additional hands-on activities to reinforce and expand knowledge presented in the textbook.
• New Instructor Resources CD-ROM with instructor slides in Microsoft PowerPoint and electronic Instructor's Manual.
• All exercises updated to correspond with MOSS 2.0 new features, functionality, buttons, and dates.
• Source documents now provided in an appendix to allow for easier viewing and utilization with the exercises.
• Key terms identified at the beginning of each chapter.
• MOSS 2.0 Notes feature identifies usability and troubleshooting tips while working with the software.

About the Author

• Cindy Correa has spent the majority of her time teaching in technical schools and colleges that offer medical career programs. Most recently, she was the Allied Health Educational Coordinator and senior instructor at City University of New York at Queens College. Cindy was responsible for the initial creation and curricula development of at least seven certificate programs of the Allied Health Program and extended her expertise to satellite courses in outlying adult education programs. Her experience and understanding of the dynamics and challenges of teaching in technical schools, including computer lab courses, has helped create a book that facilitates instructors and students. Her experience working in the private practice and administrative hospital environments includes oncology, cardiovascular surgery, pulmonology, and thoracic surgery.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 699 pages
• Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning; 2 edition (August 17, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1435438477
• ISBN-13: 978-1435438477
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.8 x 1.1 inches

List Price: $116.95 

 

Saba: Essentials of Nursing Informatics 5th Edition

The classic text on how nurses can use technology to improve patient care -- and every aspect of their job performance, education, and career.

Written by leaders in nursing informatics, this comprehensive, up-to-date text explores the ever-growing role computers play in the field of nursing. Offering theoretical background to help you understand how informatics serves many aspects of the profession, Essential of Nursing Informatics also gives you practical help in unlocking computing’s benefits -- both now and into the future. Numerous case studies and examples add real-world relevance to the material.

An internationally recognized contributor team provides information and insights not found in any other text on essential topics such as the application of computers to nursing administration, education, and research; electronic medical records (EMRs) and personal health records (PHRs); coding; and government, clinical, and private sector system requirements.

Completely revised and updated with the latest information on specialized softwares and contributions, the sixth edition of Essential of Nursing Informatics covers:

• Computer systems.
• Information theory.
• Current issues in informatics.
• Continuum of care information technology systems.
• Educational applications.
• Research applications.
• International perspectives (including Europe, Canada, Pacific Rim, Asia, South America, and South Africa).
• The future of informatics.

Table of contents

I. COMPUTERS AND NURSING

• 1. Overview of Computers and Nursing
• 2. Historical Perspective of Nursing Informatics
• 3. Electronic Health Record from a Historical Perspective

II. COMPUTER SYSTEMS

• 4. Computer System Basics
• 5. Systems Life Cycle: Planning and Analysis
• 6. Implementatin and Evaluation
• 7. Healthcare Project Management
• 8. Human Factors
• 9. Open Source and Free Software
• 10. Mobil Computing Platforms

III. INFORMATICS THEORY

• 11. The Practice Speciality of Nursing Informatics
• 12. Advanced Terminological Approaches in Nursing
• 13. Nursing Minimum Data Set Systems
• 14. Overview of the Clinical Care Classification (CCC) System: A National Nursing Standard Coded Terminology

IV. CURRENT ISSUES IN INFORMATICS

• 15. Health Data Standards Development, Harmonization and Interoperability
• 16. Nursing Informatics and Healthcare Policy
• 17. Trustworthy Systems for Safe and Private Health Care
• 18. Shaping Nursing Informatics through the Public Policy Process
• 19. Home Health: the Missing Ingredient in Healthcare Reform

V. CONTINUUM OF CARE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS

• 20. Computerized Provider Order Entry
• 21. Electronic Health Record Vendor Applications
• 22. The Rold of Technology in the Medication-Use Process
• 23. Planning, Design, and Implementation of Information Technology in Complex Healthcare Systems
• 24. The Integration of Complex Systems theory into Six Sigma Methods of Performance Improvement: A Case Study
• 25. Workflow and Healthcare Process Management
• 26. Translation of Evidence into Nursing Practice
• 27. Evidence Based Practice
• 28. Incorporating Evidence: Use of Comptuer-Based Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) for Health Professionals
• 29. The Magnet Model by Andrea Schmid-Mazzoccoli
• 30. Internet Tools for Patient Care in Advanced Practice
• 31. IT for the Rural Healthcare Market
• 32. Ambulatory Care Information Systems
• 33. Overview of Post Acute Services
• 34. Public Health Practice Applications
• 35. Informatics Solutins for Emergency Planning and Response

VI. EDUCATIONAL APPLICATI0NS

• 36. Web 2.0 and its Impact on Healthcare Educatin and Practice
• 37. Initiation and Management of Accessible, Effective Online Learning
• 38. Innovations in e-Health
• 39. Consumer and Patient Use of Computers for Health
• 40. Nursing Curriculum Reform and Healthcare Information Technology 
• 41. A Paradigm Shift in Simulation: Experiential Learning in Second Life
• 42. The TIGER Initiative

VII. RESEARCH APPLICATIONS

• 43. Computer Use in Nursing Research
• 44. Information Literacy and Computerized Information Resources

VIII. INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES

• 45. Nursing Informatics in Canada
• 46. Nursing Informatics in Europe
• 47. Pacific Rim Perspectives
• 48. Asian Perspectives
• 49. Nursing Informatics in South America
• 50. Nursing Informatics in South Africa

IX. THE FUTURE OF INFORMATICS

• 51. Future Directions

Appendix

Product Details

• Paperback: 736 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 5 edition (July 21, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071743715
• ISBN-13: 978-0071743716
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.9 x 2.3 inches

List Price: $70.00

West: Digital Medicine: Health Care in the Internet Era 2nd edition

Information technology affects virtually every aspect of human existence. People use the Internet for commerce and entertainment. They buy books, movies, and games online. Governments allow citizens to file tax returns and vehicle registration renewals digitally. In many jurisdictions, people pay fees electronically or register complaints about potholes, rats, and garbage collection through designated websites.

With the explosion of online activity, policy advocates hope to bring the benefits of information technology to health care. Governments, hospitals, doctors, and pharmaceutical manufacturers have placed a tremendous amount of medical information online in recent years. Rather than personally visit or call health care professionals, patients can surf websites filled with detailed information about specific illnesses, order drugs and equipment online, and communicate with physicians or other health professionals through e-mail or web messaging. Advances in information technology give people more powerful communications choices than at any other point in human history.

However, there are a variety of political, social, ethical, and economic forces that limit the scope of the electronic health revolution. Medical care is a highly politicized policy area characterized by intense conflict between major interests. Responsibility for health care is shared among fragmented financing and service delivery systems, which slows the pace of change. Reform is complicated by a digital divide that prevents many vulnerable populations from taking full advantage of recent advances in information technology. Technology costs, ethical dilemmas, and privacy concerns make it difficult for society to take full advantage of new modes of communication within the health care sphere.

This book investigates factors that limit the ability of digital technology to remake health care. Few people use the Internet to search for health information, purchase prescription drugs online, or e-mail health care providers. Most do not avail themselves of electronic medical records. Based on our analysis of online content, national public opinion surveys, and case studies of technology innovation, we argue that gains in health information technology will not be realized until policymakers and health care officials develop a better understanding of key problems. A variety of measures are required to bring health information technology to all consumers. Prevailing obstacles in the form of political divisions, technology costs, communications problems, ethical issues, privacy concerns, and disparities between social groups must be addressed if the benefits of the e-health revolution are to be extended to all.

About the Authors 

• Darrell M. West is vice president and director of Governance Studies and founding director of the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings. His studies include technology policy, electronic government, and mass media.
• Edward Miler is an associate professor of gerontology and public policy at the University of Massachusetts Boston and adjunct associate professor of public policy and community health at Brown University. A former Fulbright scholar and social policy analyst at the Congressional Research Service trained in political science and health services research at Yale University and the University of Michigan, he is the author of more than 80 journal articles, book chapters and reports on aging and long-term care, telemedicine and e-health, and intergovernmental relations.

Book Details

• Paperback: 185 pages
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press; 2nd edition (February 25, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0815704550
• ISBN-13: 978-0815704553
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches

List Price: $22.95

Dougherty: Digital Image Processing for Medical Applications

The influence and impact of digital images on modern society, science, technology and art are tremendous. Image processing has become such a critical component in contemporary science and technology that many tasks would not be attempted without it. It is a truly interdisciplinary subject that draws from synergistic developments involving many disciplines and is used in medical imaging, microscopy, astronomy, computer vision, geology and many other fields.

The rapid and continuing progress in computerized medical image reconstruction, and the associated developments in analysismethods and computer-aided diagnosis, have propelled medical imaging into one of the most important sub-fields in scientific imaging. This book takes its motivation from medical applications and uses real medical images and situations to clarify and consolidate concepts and to build intuition, insight and understanding. An overview of the fundamentals of the most important clinical imaging modalities in use is included to provide a context, and to illustrate how the images are produced and acquired.

This is a text for use in a first practical course in image processing and analysis, for final-year undergraduate or first-year graduate students with a background in biomedical engineering, computer science, radiologic sciences or physics.

Designed for readerswho will become “end users” of digital image processing in the biomedical sciences, it emphasizes the conceptual framework and the effective use of image processing tools and uses mathematics as a tool, minimizing the advanced mathematical development of other textbooks.

Discussions of the major medical imaging modalities enable students to understand the diagnostic tasks for which images are needed and the typical distortions and artifacts associated with each modality. This knowledge then motivates the presentation of the techniques needed to reverse distortions, minimize artifacts and enhance important features. Students understand why they are undertaking particular operations, and the practical activities enable them to see in real time how operations affect real images. Image processing is a hands-on discipline, and the best way to learn is by doing. Theory and practice are linked, each reinforcing the other.

The key distinguishing features of the book are as follows.

• Its pedagogical approach combines intuition with problem-solving, and emphasizes conceptual learning, i.e. understanding the “big picture,” rather than getting overwhelmed with the details.
  
• Overviews summarize the essential purpose of the material covered in each chapter.
  
• Learning objectives list the specific knowledge and skills to be acquired.
  
• Practical computer-based activities, referred to in each chapter, build intuition, skills and confidence. They can be used by the instructor for class demonstrations and/or by the students as hands-on activities.
  
• Accessible end-of-chapter problems reinforce and consolidate understanding.
  
• Only a modest background in mathematics and science, at the level of College/ University entry, is assumed. 

Table of Contents

• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Imaging systems
• 3. Medical images obtained with ionizing radiation
• 4. Medical images obtained with non-ionizing radiation
• 5. Fundamentals of digital image processing
• 6. Image enhancement in the spatial domain
• 7. Image enhancement in the frequency domain
• 8. Image restoration
• 9. Morphological image processing
• 10. Image segmentation
• 11. Feature recognition and classification
• 12. Three-dimensional visualization
• 13. Medical applications of imaging
• 14. Frontiers of image processing in medicine
• Appendix A. The Fourier Series and Fourier Transform
• Appendix B. Set theory and probability
• Appendix C. Shape and texture
• Bibliography
• Index

Book Details

• Hardcover: 462 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (May 11, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521860857
• ISBN-13: 978-0521860857
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.8 x 1.1 inches

List Price: $84.00