Health Care Software Sourcebook 1997

Aspen Reference Group. Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen Publishers; 1997. 467 pages. $89.00. ISBN 0834209047. Order phone 800-638-8437.

Field of medicine: Medical informatics.

Format: Softcover book.

Audience: Practicing clinicians; researchers; hospital administrators; physician office managers; informaticians; those involved in the selection of enterprise-wide solutions, electronic medical records, and billing; and patient, physician, and nurse educators.

Purpose: To provide health care specialists with a practical, well-indexed compendium of software solutions available for the most common challenges found in the teaching, practice, and business of medicine.

Content: This compendium, which is updated annually, is an excellent sampling of the more prominent medical software packages available. The book is divided into five logically defined sections: software listings, a vendor directory, an application index, a product name index, and a vendor index. The software listings section, the central section …