Health Informatics: A Systems Perspective

ISBN: 1567934358

Author: Brown, Gordon

Condition: New

Historically, informatics was considered as a technology for automating clinical decision making and processes. This book views informatics as a transforming technology, one that alters the structure of clinical processes and broader health organizations. It explores the use of health information technology from a systems perspective. The traditional three-pronged informatics model-cellular, clinical, and population-is expanded to include dynamic systems, which adds to and alters previous conceptions.This text integrates the medical, nursing, and healthcare IT professions. Its primary audience is graduate and professional students.Fifteen evidenced-based cases are used through the text to illustrate each chapters concepts. Each chapter includes learning objectives, presents key concepts, and discussion questions.Topics covered include: The application and function of electronic medical records The importance of concept-based controlled biomedical vocabularies How to identify different e-health platforms How to recognize the technical safeguards required by the HIPAA Security Rule How information technology can change the role of the patientInstructor Resources: PowerPoint slides of the exhibits and answers/talking points for the discussion questions and case studies. To see a sample, click on the Instructor Resource sample tab above.