This important new volume presents recent research in healthcare information technology and
analytics. Individual chapters look at such issues as the impact of technology failure on
electronic prescribing behavior in primary care attitudes toward electronic health records a
latent growth modeling approach to understanding lifestyle decisions based on patient
historical data designing an integrated surgical care delivery system using axiomatic design
and petri net modeling and failure in a dynamic decision environment particularly in treating
patients with a chronic disease. Other chapters look at such topics as the impact of
information technology integration in integrated delivery systems operations and supply chain
control for inventory management in a health system pharmacy decision-theoretic assistants
based on contextual gesture recognition evaluating emergency response medical information
systems clinical decision support in critical care virtual worlds in healthcare and natural
language processing for understanding contraceptive use at the VA.
