The Computerization of Behavioral Healthcare: How to Enhance Clinical Practice, Management, and Communications / Edition 1

by Tom Trabin, Michael A. Freeman

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780787902216
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	04/19/1996
Series:	The Jossey-Bass Managed Behavioral Healthcare Library
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	5.12(w) x 11.02(h) x 1.18(d)

About the Author

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)

Editorial Reviews

"A much-needed resource for coping with the technological demands in the rapidly evolving field of behavioral health care."

"A book of major significance about the careful application of computers and information processing to finding solutions to the many challenges posed by the rapid movement toward managed behavioral health care." —Bruce W. Vieweg, M.S., director, Office of Information Systems, State of Missouri Department of Mental Health

"This pathbreaking book shows not only that it is unavoidable that computer science and telecommunication technology are entering the field of behavioral health, but that patients and their families, healthcare personnel and managers may look forward to this development." —W. Gulbinat, acting manager, epidemiological and managerial support, Division of Mental Health and the Prevention of Substance Abuse, World Health Organization

"An essential guide for mental health practitioners. A pioneering, must-read book for the 21st century clinician." —Steven E. Locke, M.D., chief of behavioral medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, and director of psychiatric informatics, Center for Clinical Computing, Harvard Medical School

"There is much in this book that is useful in each area ranging from a compendium of Internet mental health conference lists to basic definitions of terminology to some subtly sophisticated information on clinical decision support systems (DSSs)." —Reviewed by Rodney L. Lowman, Contemporary Psychology

From the Publisher

This book identifies and discusses many of the issues facing clinicians and administrators as behavioral healthcare becomes increasingly computerized. The book is divided into three parts. The first section is four chapters on clinical uses of computerized systems, covering such topics as decision support, outcome management, and computer-assisted therapy. The second section is five chapters focusing on management perspectives on computerization in various environments, including group practices, community mental health centers, and hospitals. The final section is four chapters on aspects of using computers to enhance communication. This book is intended to provide the reader with a broad set of perspectives on the implications for managed behavioral healthcare of the dramatic increase in computer access, power, and flexibility. As an all-purpose primer on these advances, the book succeeds in orienting the mental health service savvy reader to options for computer applications. The book provides summaries and critiques of some of the editing options in each area. The book also provides some useful hands-on direction in the chapters on such topics as managing transitions to a computerized system and using the Internet and bulletin boards. This book is likely to be most useful to mental health administrators and clinicians in group settings who are interested in rapidly ""getting up to speed"" on issues of computerization. The book assumes some prior knowledge of mental health services and administration. The book is fairly well referenced, and although there are not many illustrations and figures, those that are provided are clear and understandable. This book is well written andtimely. It offers an administrator in almost any organized setting a series of options and strategies for understanding and implementing computerization of behavioral healthcare. The book also offers clinicians thinking of organizing group practices with the tools needed to use computers to speed and simplify the process of getting organized. Although the book is broad in scope and many readers likely will prefer to pick and choose from among the chapters, almost all readers are likely to find helpful information presented in an enjoyable to read format.

John S. Lyons

Reviewer:John S. Lyons, PhD(Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine)
Description:This book identifies and discusses many of the issues facing clinicians and administrators as behavioral healthcare becomes increasingly computerized. The book is divided into three parts. The first section is four chapters on clinical uses of computerized systems, covering such topics as decision support, outcome management, and computer-assisted therapy. The second section is five chapters focusing on management perspectives on computerization in various environments, including group practices, community mental health centers, and hospitals. The final section is four chapters on aspects of using computers to enhance communication.
Purpose:This book is intended to provide the reader with a broad set of perspectives on the implications for managed behavioral healthcare of the dramatic increase in computer access, power, and flexibility. As an all-purpose primer on these advances, the book succeeds in orienting the mental health service savvy reader to options for computer applications. The book provides summaries and critiques of some of the editing options in each area. The book also provides some useful hands-on direction in the chapters on such topics as managing transitions to a computerized system and using the Internet and bulletin boards.
Audience:This book is likely to be most useful to mental health administrators and clinicians in group settings who are interested in rapidly "getting up to speed" on issues of computerization. The book assumes some prior knowledge of mental health services andadministration.
Features:The book is fairly well referenced, and although there are not many illustrations and figures, those that are provided are clear and understandable.
Assessment:This book is well written and timely. It offers an administrator in almost any organized setting a series of options and strategies for understanding and implementing computerization of behavioral healthcare. The book also offers clinicians thinking of organizing group practices with the tools needed to use computers to speed and simplify the process of getting organized. Although the book is broad in scope and many readers likely will prefer to pick and choose from among the chapters, almost all readers are likely to find helpful information presented in an enjoyable to read format.

Offers advice and practical guidelines in nontechnical terms for computerizing clinical practice, management, and communications in behavioral healthcare. Describes advances in different types of software and online services and their effects on patients, clinicians, and organizations; demonstrates how computers are networked and how interactive systems help to contain costs; and presents a framework for measuring and improving clinical outcomes. For professionals in the field. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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