Health informatics
Subtitle: practical guide for healthcare and information technology professionals
By: Robert E. Hoyt, editor ; Ann K. Yoshihashi, Nora J. Bailey, associate editor(s)
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Raleigh, N.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 467
ISBN-13: 9781105437557
Subjects: Medical informatics; Medical Informatics; Health and Fitness
Other titles: Medical informatics : practical guide for the healthcare professional
Description: Health Informatics (HI) focuses on the application of Information Technology (IT) to the field of medicine to improve individual and population healthcare delivery, education and research. This extensively updated fifth edition reflects the current knowledge in Health Informatics and provides learning objectives, key points, case studies and references.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overview of health informatics; title: Healthcare data, information, and knowledge; title: Electronic health records; title: Practice management systems; title: Health information exchange; title: Data standards; title: Architectures of information systems; title: Health information privacy; title: Health information security; title: Health informatics ethics; title: Consumer health informatics; title: Mobile technology; title: Online medical resources; title: Search engines; title: Evidence based medicine and clinical practice guidelines; title: Disease management and disease registries; title: Quality improvement strategies; title: Patient safety and health information technology; title: Electronic prescribing; title: Telemedicine; title: Picture archiving and communication systems; title: Bioinformatics; title: Public health informatics; title: E-research.