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Health Informatics

An Interprofessional Approach

  • 2nd Edition - March 31, 2015
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Ramona Nelson, Nancy Staggers
  • Language: English

Awarded second place in the 2017 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Information Technology category. See how information technology intersects with health care! Health Infor… Read more

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Awarded second place in the 2017 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Information Technology category. See how information technology intersects with health care! Health Informatics: An Interprofessional Approach, 2nd Edition prepares you for success in today’s technology-filled healthcare practice. Concise coverage includes information systems and applications such as electronic health records, clinical decision support, telehealth, ePatients, and social media tools, as well as system implementation. New to this edition are topics including data science and analytics, mHealth, principles of project management, and contract negotiations. Written by expert informatics educators Ramona Nelson and Nancy Staggers, this edition enhances the book that won a 2013 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year award!

Key features

  • Experts
  • from a wide range of health disciplines cover the latest on the interprofessional aspects of informatics — a key Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) initiative and a growing specialty area in nursing.
  • Case studies encourage higher-level thinking about how concepts apply to real-world nursing practice.
  • Discussion questions challenge you to think critically and to visualize the future of health informatics.
  • Objectives, key terms and an abstract at the beginning of each chapter provide an overview of what you will learn.
  • Conclusion and Future Directions section at the end of each chapter describes how informatics will continue to evolve as healthcare moves to an interprofessional foundation.

Table of contents

Unit 1: Foundational Information in Health Informatics

1. Health Informatics: Introduction, Definition and Significance

2. Theoretical Foundations of Health Informatics

3. Use of Evidence Based Practice and Practice Based Evidence in Health Informatics

4. Models, Theories and Research for Program Evaluation

5. Technical Infrastructure to Support Healthcare
Unit 2: Information Systems and Applications For the Delivery of Health Care

6. Electronic Health Records and Applications for Managing Patient Care

7. Administrative Application in 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
Unit 3: Participatory Health Care Informatics

12. The Engaged ePatient

13. Social Media Tools for Practice and Education

14. Personal Health Records

15. mHealth – The Intersection of Mobile Technology and Health NEW!
Unit 4: Managing the Life Cycle of a Health Information System

16. Strategic Planning and Selecting an Information System

17. Project Management Principles for Health Informatics NEW!

18. Contract Negotiations and Software Licensing NEW!

19. Implementing and Upgrading an Information System

20. Downtime and Disaster Recovery for Health Information Systems
Unit 5: Usability, Standards, Safety and Analytics in Health Informatics

21. Improving the User Experience for Health Information Technology

22. Informatics Related Standards and Standards and Standard Setting Organizations

23. Data Science and Analytics in Healthcare NEW!

24. Patient Safety and Quality Initiatives in Health Informatics
Unit 6: Governance Structures, Legal, and Regulatory Issues in Health Informatics

25. Legal Issues, Federal Regulations, and Accreditation NEW!

26. Privacy and Security

27. The Health Information Technology for Education and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, Meaningful Use (MU) and Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) NEW!

28. Health Policy and Informatics

29. Health Information Technology Governance
Unit 7: Education and Health Informatics

30. Informatics in the Curriculum for Healthcare Professionals

31. Distributive Education: Applications, Techniques and Issues

32. Informatics Tools for Educating Health Professionals

33. Simulation in Healthcare Education
Unit 8: International Health Informatics Efforts

34. International Efforts, Issues and Innovations
Unit 9: Exploring the Past and the Future

35. The Evolving History of Health Informatics

36. Future Directions and Future Research in Health Informatics

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 16, 2017
  • Language: English

About the authors

RN

Ramona Nelson

Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emerita Slippery Rock University Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania President, Ramona Nelson Consulting Allison Park, Pennsylvania

NS

Nancy Staggers

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Informatics School of Nursing University of Maryland Baltimore, Maryland and Adjunct Professor, College of Nursing and Department of Biomedical Informatics University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah