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- Information systems and technologies are crucial for healthcare, especially in hospital settings, but field hospitals haven't fully utilized these tools yet.
- This paper explores how healthcare informatics, knowledge management, and lean healthcare methods can enhance patient care in challenging field hospital environments.
- It specifically focuses on the British Army's field hospital as a case study to illustrate effective deployment of these information systems and technologies.
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Information systems and related technologies continue to develop and have become an integral part of healthcare provision and hospital care in particular. Field hospitals typically operate in the most austere and difficult of conditions and have yet to fully exploit related technologies. This paper addresses those aspects of healthcare informatics, healthcare knowledge management and lean healthcare that can be applied to field hospitals, with a view to improving patient care. The aim is to provide a vision for the deployment of information systems and information technology in field hospitals, using the British Army's field hospital as a representative model.
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