The American College of Health Care Administrators (ACHCA) recently awarded a Jones & Bartlett Learning author with the ACHCA 2010 Journalism Award. The award winner, John Pratt, MHA, FACHCA, is the author of recent Third Edition of Long-Term Care: Managing Across the Continuum.

The prestigious Journalism Award recognizes an individual or organization for excellent journalistic achievement representing fair and accurate content related to the long-term care industry during the twelve months prior to the submission of the award nomination.

Mr. Pratt created the Long-Term Care Management Institute at Saint Joseph's College of Maine to enhance long-term care by improving the education of long-term care managers. He currently serves as its Director. A prolific writer, John has authored many articles relating to long-term care, leadership and management, and a textbook which has been used by many colleges and universities in training future leaders in the field. His text, Long-Term Care: Managing Across the Continuum is now in its 3rd edition and is highly regarded as one of the most comprehensive books in the long-term care field.

Mr. Pratt has developed online courses and degrees, as well as numerous continuing education courses. Many long-term care leaders call on him to share his expertise, both formally and informally. He represents the best in the field of education, and is committed to spreading his educational influence through his writing efforts.

From the Foreword of Adaptive Health Management Information Systems by Joseph Tan. Adaptive Health Management Information Systems by Joseph Tan will teach your students to adapt with the evolve field of HMIS and HI. Preview this title through Google >>When I joined the health information world many years ago disc drives storing 5 to 10 megabytes of information and costing upward of $200,000 were the standard; central processing units with memories of 512K to 1024K and costing many thousands of dollars were the rule; elaborate climate controlled environments costing tens of thousands of dollars were mandatory: elaborately trained operators were required to be present at all times that the technology was being used; and an on-line, real-time order entry system was rare and very expensive. At that time there were less than a dozen such systems in the United States that were actually working as true real-time order entry and data collection systems. Their computing power was probably less than what we carry around on our belts today. We talked about how health care organizations had more data than they knew what to do with but that very few had more information than they could use.

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