Product Description: This book serves two purposes: (1) it is a comprehensive textbook on disease classification, coding and coding systems, medical records, and the history of health information systems in the U.S., including extensive appendices, bibliography, and index; (2) it exposes serious problems in our national health information "system" and proposes solutions...read more

Product Description: Explaining the vocabulary of health care delivery today and the systems, strategies, technologies, policies, laws, concepts, and tools needed to understand the healthy communities movement.