Guide to Health Informatics
eBook - PDF

Guide to Health Informatics

  1. 710 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Guide to Health Informatics

About this book

This essential text provides a readable yet sophisticated overview of the basic concepts of information technologies as they apply in healthcare. Spanning areas as diverse as the electronic medical record, searching, protocols, and communications as well as the Internet, Enrico Coiera has succeeded in making this vast and complex area accessible an

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2015
eBook ISBN
9781444170504
Edition
3
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Public Health, Administration & Care

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Note
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction to health informatics – the systems science of healthcare
  7. chapter 1: Models
  8. Chapter 2: Information
  9. Chapter 3: Information systems
  10. chapter 4: Communicating
  11. Chapter 5: Structuring
  12. Chapter 6: Questioning
  13. Chapter 7: Searching
  14. Chapter 8: Making decisions
  15. chapter 9: Information management systems
  16. Chapter 10: The electronic health record
  17. Chapter 11: Designing and evaluating information and communication systems
  18. chapter 12: Implementation
  19. Chapter 13: Information system safety
  20. Chapter 14: Information economics
  21. chapter 15: Guidelines, protocols and evidence-based healthcare
  22. chapter 16: Computer-based protocol systems
  23. Chapter 17: Designing, disseminating and applying protocols
  24. Chapter 18: Communication systems basics
  25. Interlude – the Internet and the World Wide Web
  26. Chapter 19: Information and communication networks
  27. chapter 20: Social networks and social media interventions
  28. Chapter 21: Telehealth and mobile health
  29. chapter 22: Terms, codes and classification
  30. Chapter 23: Healthcare terminologies and classification systems
  31. Chapter 24: Natural language and formal terminology
  32. chapter 25: Clinical decision support systems
  33. Interlude – artificial intelligence in medicine
  34. chapter 26: Computational reasoning methods
  35. chapter 27: Model building for decision support, data analysis and scientific discovery
  36. chapter 28: Patient monitoring and control
  37. chapter 29: Population surveillance and public health informatics
  38. chapter 30: Bioinformatics
  39. chapter 31: Clinical bioinformatics and personalized medicine
  40. chapter 32: Consumer health informatics
  41. Glossary
  42. References
  43. Back Cover