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Handbook of Health/Nursing Informatics and Technology

  • 1st Edition - September 22, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Prakash Palanivelu
  • Language: English

Handbook of Health/Nursing Informatics and Technology is written based on the revised IndianNursing Council (INC) syllabus. This book is supplemented with diagrammatic pre… Read more

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Handbook of Health/Nursing Informatics and Technology is written based on the revised Indian
Nursing Council (INC) syllabus. This book is supplemented with diagrammatic presentations, flowcharts, key points in the boxes and tables. Each chapter’s text is provided with diagrams wherever felt essential to explain the text.

Key features

Salient Features
• Chapter outline in each chapter provides summary of the contents discussed within the chapter
• Content contributed from Nurses (professors at nursing colleges and bedside nurses), computer
professionals ensures the quality of provided text
• Annexures such as keyboard Short cut keys, Flowcharts (denoting the sequence of steps in computer usage) and Practical usage of hospital information system or health information system might help the teachers to teach the subject effectively
Digital Resources
• eBook
• Section wise powerpoint slides
• Videos for some important chapters

Table of contents

UNIT I Introduction to computer applications for patient care delivery system and nursing practice

1 Introduction to computers

2 Windows operating system, microsoft word, excel and powerpoint

3 Internet

4 Literature search

5 Statistical packages

6 Hospital information management system

UNIT II Principles of health informatics

7 Health informatics—needs, objectives and limitations

8 Use of data, information and knowledge for more effective healthcare and better health
UNIT III Information systems in healthcare

9 Introduction to the role and architecture of information systems in modern healthcare
environments

10 Clinical information system
UNIT IV Shared care and electronic health records

11 Challenges of capturing rich patient histories in a computable form

12 Latest global developments and standards to enable lifelong electronic health records to be integrated from disparate system
UNIT IV Patient safety and clinical risk

13 Relationship between patient safety and informatics

14 Function and application of risk management process
UNIT V Clinical knowledge and decision making

15 Clinical knowledge management and decision making

16 Systematized nomenclature of medicine and standardized nursing terminologies
UNIT VII E-health: patients and the internet

17 Use of information and communication technology to improve or enable personal and public healthcare

18 Public health informatics
UNIT VIII Using information in healthcare management

19 Components of nursing information system (NIS)

20 Evaluation, analysis and presentation of healthcare data
UNIT IX Information laws and governance in clinical practice

21 Ethical-legal issues pertaining to healthcare information in contemporary clinical practice

22 Ethical-legal issues related to digital health applied to nursing
UNIT X Healthcare quality and evidence-based practice

23 Use of scientifi c evidence in improving the quality of healthcare and technical and professional
informatics standards
Annexure—I: Short cut keys
Annexure—II: Flowcharts
Annexure—III: Practical usage of hospital information system or health information system

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 22, 2023
  • Language: English