Computers in Private Practice Management

I: The Necessary Items.- 1. Major Application Areas: Computer Goodies.- 2. The Technology Behind the Applications Packages.- 3. Communications: The Telephone Connection.- 4. Validation, Regulation, and Standardization of Computer-Based Medical Products and Services.- II: The Eight Major Office System Functions.- 5. Administrative Management: Where Decisions Are Made.- 6. Accounting Management: This Area Makes the Wheels Go Around.- 7. Time Management: “Time”—A Forgotten Resource.- 8. Marketing Management: The New Buzzword in Medicine.- 9. Patient Care Management: What Medicine Is All About.- 10. Physician Management: Quality Management of All Types.- 11. Hospital Management: Efficient Use of Resources.- 12. Medical Information Management: Coping With the Volumes.- 13. Need Analysis: What Is It? Why? How?.- III: New Resources—Network Databases.- 14. Medical Information Networks: How to Access and Find Data.- 15. Electronic Mail: A New Way to Exchange Information.- 16. Expert Decision Support: Artificial Intelligence.- 17. Continuing Medical Education and Computers.- IV: Special Applications.- 18. Creation of a Personalized Medical Textbook: Specialized Software.- 19. The Automated Medical Records System.- 20. Future Trends: What Is in the Crystal Ball?.