Concise Guide to Computers in Clinical Psychiatry (Concise Guides) - Softcover

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Carlyle H. Chan, M.D., is Professor and Vice Chair for Education and Informatics in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. John S. Luo, M.D., is Assistant Professor and Director of Psychiatric Informatics in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, Davis, in Sacramento, California. Robert S. Kennedy, M.A., is Editor and Program Director at Medscape Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Associate in Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, New York.

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This groundbreaking pocket guide, the latest in American Psychiatric Publishing's Concise Guide series, is an essential primer about computers for students, residents, and clinicians. It focuses on computer applications relevant to clinical psychiatric practice, including all the new tools for assimilating and managing the requisite knowledge (e.g., online Internet learning), facilitating the required documentation (e.g., electronic record keeping), and providing clinical service (e.g., telemedicine).

Divided along content areas that may be read independently as well as sequentially, these informative chapters cover everything from buying versus upgrading, desktop versus laptop, and Macintosh versus personal computer, to peripheral equipment such as scanners, digital cameras, storage devices, and power supply protection—with an extensive chapter on handheld computers (personal digital assistants, or PDAs). Subsequent chapters discuss software applications, the Internet, telemedicine, security and confidentiality, maintenance, and future directions for technologies that affect clinical care, such as patient screening, treatment, and education and certification.

Extensively referenced (including web resources) and indexed with an immediately useful glossary, this practical, convenient handbook is the ideal introductory reference for clinicians who are either new to computers or still contemplating their first purchase.

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This groundbreaking pocket guide, the latest in American Psychiatric Publishing's Concise Guide series, is an essential primer about computers for students, residents, and clinicians. It focuses on computer applications relevant to clinical psychiatric practice, including all the new tools for assimilating and managing the requisite knowledge (e.g., online Internet learning), facilitating the required documentation (e.g., electronic record keeping), and providing clinical service (e.g., telemedicine).

Divided along content areas that may be read independently as well as sequentially, these informative chapters cover everything from buying versus upgrading, desktop versus laptop, and Macintosh versus personal computer, to peripheral equipment such as scanners, digital cameras, storage devices, and power supply protection -- with an extensive chapter on handheld computers (personal digital assistants, or PDAs). Subsequent chapters discuss software applications, the Internet, telemedicine, security and confidentiality, maintenance, and future directions for technologies that affect clinical care, such as patient screening, treatment, and education and certification.

Extensively referenced (including web resources) and indexed with an immediately useful glossary, this practical, convenient handbook is the ideal introductory reference for clinicians who are either new to computers or still contemplating their first purchase.