Setting up Healthcare Services Information Systems (a Guide for Requirement Analysis, Application Specification, and Procurement)

This publication caps a successful partnership between the Pan American Health Organization and IBM Corporation that set out to study health information issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. Divided into seven sections, it covers: basic principles; state of the art and trends; technological and market aspects of systems acquisition; details of basic functionalities; issues specific to Latin America and the Caribbean; a specialised technical chapter and web site and bibliographical references. The publication comes with a CD-ROM which contains all chapters in PDF in both English and Spanish.Pan American Health Organization Staff is the author of 'Setting up Healthcare Services Information Systems (a Guide for Requirement Analysis, Application Specification, and Procurement)' with ISBN 9789275122662 and ISBN 9275122660.