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Key Advances in Clinical Informatics

Transforming Health Care through Health Information Technology

  • 1st Edition - June 28, 2017
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Aziz Sheikh, David W. Bates, Adam Wright, Kathrin Cresswell
  • Language: English

Key Advances in Clinical Informatics: Transforming Health Care through Health Information Technology provides a state-of-the-art overview of the most current subjects in clinical… Read more

Description

Key Advances in Clinical Informatics: Transforming Health Care through Health Information Technology provides a state-of-the-art overview of the most current subjects in clinical informatics. Leading international authorities write short, accessible, well-referenced chapters which bring readers up-to-date with key developments and likely future advances in the relevant subject areas.

This book encompasses topics such as inpatient and outpatient clinical information systems, clinical decision support systems, health information technology, genomics, mobile health, telehealth and cloud-based computing. Additionally, it discusses privacy, confidentiality and security required for health data.

Edited by internationally recognized authorities in the field of clinical informatics, the book is a valuable resource for medical/nursing students, clinical informaticists, clinicians in training, practicing clinicians and allied health professionals with an interest in health informatics.

Key features

  • Presents a state-of-the-art overview of the most current subjects in clinical informatics.
  • Provides summary boxes of key points at the beginning of each chapter to impart relevant messages in an easily digestible fashion
  • Includes internationally acclaimed experts contributing to chapters in one accessible text
  • Explains and illustrates through international case studies to show how the evidence presented is applied in a real world setting

Readership

Medical/nursing students, clinical informaticists, clinicians in training, practicing clinicians and allied health professionals with an interest in health informatics

Table of contents

1. An Overview of Clinical Informatics2. Inpatient Clinical Information Systems3. Outpatient Clinical Information Systems4. Clinical Documentation5. Interoperability6. Privacy, Confidentiality and Security7. HIT Policy8. Health Information Technology and Value9. Organizational Issues10. Medication, Laboratory, and Radiology Testing11. Bioinformatics and Precision Medicine12. Knowledge Management and Computerized Guidelines13. Mobile Health14. HIT and Safety15. Predictive Analytics and Population Health16. An Apps-Based Information Economy in Healthcare17. Cloud-based Computing18. Social/consumer Informatics19. Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence20. Conclusions and future directions

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: July 11, 2017
  • Language: English

About the editors

AS

Aziz Sheikh

Professor of Primary Care Research and Development and Co-Director, Centre of Medical Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, UK Areas of expertise: Allergy and Respiratory Medicine; eHealth; Patient Safety; and Ethnicity, Religion and Health.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Primary Care Research and Development Co-Director of the Centre of Medical Informatics

DB

David W. Bates

Chair, Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, USA Areas of expertise: Patient Safety and Health Information Technology
Affiliations and expertise
Chair, Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, USA

AW

Adam Wright

Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, USA Areas of expertise: Clinical Decision Support and Data Mining.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, USA

KC

Kathrin Cresswell

CSO Post-doctoral Fellow, Centre of Medical Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, UK Areas of expertise: Patient Safety and Qualitative Health Services Research.
Affiliations and expertise
CSO Post-doctoral Fellow, Centre of Medical Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, UK

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