Health Care Information Systems: A Practical Approach for Health Care Management, 2nd Edition

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We wish to thank Amanda Price, a student in the master’s degree program in health administration at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), for her assistance in preparing the final manuscript for this book. We also wish to thank the following MUSC students in the doctoral degree program in health administration, who contributed their information systems management stories and experiences to us so we could use them as case studies: Penney Burlingame, Barbara Chelton, Stuart Fine, David Freed, David Gehant, Patricia Givens, Victoria Harkins, Randall Jones, Catrin Jones-Nazar, Ronald Kintz, James Kirby, George Mikatarian, Lorie Shoemaker, and Gary Wilde.