Health Informatics

Get on the cutting edge of informatics with Health Informatics, An Interprofessional Approach. Covering a wide range of skills and systems, this unique title prepares you for work in today's technology-filled clinical field. Topics include clinical decision support, clinical documentation, provider order entry systems, system implementation, adoption issues, and more. Case studies, abstracts, and discussion questions enhance your understanding of these crucial areas of the clinical space.

Unit 1: Background and Foundational Information

1. Introduction: The Evolution of Health Informatics
2. Theoretical Foundations of Health informatics
3. Evidence-Based Practice and Informatics
4. Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining, and Practice-Based Evidence
5. Program Evaluation and Research Techniques

Unit 2: Information Systems in Health Care Delivery

6. Electronic Health Records and Applications for Managing Patient Care
7. Applications for Managing Institutions Delivering Healthcare
8. Telehealth and Applications for Delivering Care at a Distance
9. Home Health and Related Community-Based Systems
10. Clinical Decision Support Systems in Healthcare
11. Public Health Informatics
12. Technical Infrastructure to Support Healthcare

Unit 3: Participatory Health Care Informatics and Health Care on the Internet

13. The Evolving ePatient
14. Social Networking and Other Web-Based Applications in Healthcare
15. Personal Health Records (PHRs)

Unit 4: Project Management Tools and Procedures

16. Identifying and Selecting an Information System Solution
17. Implementing and Upgrading an Information System Solution
18. Health System Downtime and Disaster Recovery

Unit 5: Quality, Usability and Standards in Informatics

19. Privacy, Confidentiality, Security and Safety
20. Patient Safety and Quality Initiatives in Informatics
21. Improving the User Experience for Health Information Technology Products
22. Standards

Unit 6: Governance and Organizational Structures for Informatics

23. Health IT Governance
24. Legal Issues, Federal Regulations and Accreditation
25. Health Policy and Informatics

Unit 7: Education and Informatics

26. Informatics in the Curriculum for Healthcare Professionals
27. Distance Education: Applications, Techniques and Issues
28. Information Systems and Technical Tools in Healthcare Education
29. Simulation in Healthcare Education

Unit 8: International Informatics Efforts

30. International Efforts, Issues, and Innovations

Unit 9: The Present and Future

  31.  Future Directions and Future Research in Health Informatics