Health Informatics: A Systems Perspective - Hardcover

Brown, Gordon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1567934358 ISBN 13: 9781567934359

Publisher: Health Administration Press, 2012

Synopsis

AVAILABLE FALL 2012

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 chapter s 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 patient

About this title

About the Author:

Gordon D. Brown, PhD, is professor and chair in the department of health management and informatics at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Timothy B. Patrick, PhD, is assistant professor in the department of health management and informatics, and associate director, National Library of Medicine Biomedical and Health Informatics Research Training program, at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Kalyan Pasupathy, PhD, is an assistant professor in the department of health management and informatics at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Health Administration Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1567934358
• ISBN 13: 9781567934359
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1