Information Networks for Community Health

Contents: Community-Based Health Care: An Introduction; CHINS: The Current State; Enterprise-Wide Clinical Data Integration; Patient-Computer Dialogue and the Patient's Right to Decide; Information Infrastructure for Health Communities: The Wisconsin Health Information Network; CHMIS Evolution: The Metamorphosis of a Community Health Movement; CHINs: A Public Health Perspective; The Target Cities Program: Management Information Systems for Drug Abuse Treatment; CHESS: The Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System; The Alzheimer's Disease Support Center: Information and Support Through Computer-Mediated Communication; Cancer, Me?: Health Advice Goes On-Line; Improving Health Through Computer Self-Help Programs: Theory and Practice; Electronic Communities of Patients: Computer Services Through Telephones; Telemedicine: Building Rural Health Systems for Today and Tomorrow; Computer Networks as Environments for Care; Privacy, Confidentiality and CHINs; Business, Industry and CHINs.