Contents
About VISUS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
About the authors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
About This Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Conventions Used in This Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
What You’re Not to Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Foolish Assumptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
How This Book is Organised . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Symbols in This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Where to Go from Here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
PART I
HEALTHCARE CONTENT MANAGEMENT:
THE HOLISTIC VIEW ON MEDICAL DATA. . . . . . . . . . . 17
Chapter 1
What Is Healthcare Content Management?. . . . . . . . 19
What Healthcare Can Learn from the Industrial Sector. . . . . . . 19
Adaption for Healthcare. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
HCM – Why And When? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Things You Should Know about HCM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
HCM consolidates data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
HCM and HCM systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
No HCM system is »off the shelf« . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
HCM benefits everyone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
The Five Advantages of HCM at a Glance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Chapter 2
What an HCM System Must Be Capable of. . . . . . . . . 25
This Is What’s New about HCM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Optimization for clinical, case-related data. . . . . . . . . . . . 26
HCM makes wishes come true. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
The capability to display all case-related data
uniformly and simultaneously. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
The ability of classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
You Have the Data – All You Have To Do Is Use It. . . . . . . . . . . . 28
One system – many solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
HCM makes you smart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29