Managing Technological Change: Organizational Aspects of Health Informatics

With the rise of information systems being used in the healthcare arena, implementation, management, and reactionary issues naturally arise in response to accompanying changes. Managing Technological Change: The People and Organizational Aspects of Health Informatics, Second Edition, focuses on the organizational and people skills aspects of managing technological changes and information system implementations in healthcare systems. Emphasizing the role of human responses to change, this book takes a managerial and organizational focus and applies it to technological implementations within the confines of the healthcare system and among healthcare professionals specifically. Managing Technological Change: The People and Organizational Aspects of Health Informatics, Second Edition, emphasizes the importance of the individual vidual reaction to change and the most efficient and successful ways to prevent and manage any resulting resistance stemming from the introduction of new technological systems into existing healthcare environments and cultures. By focusing on the personnel and organizational aspects of healthcare information systems, this book is able to identify and examine the people and organizational skills necessary to not only successfully manage new technological introductions themselves, but also maintain a productive and efficient working environment throughout and proceeding the system conversion.