Health Informatics: Practical Guide for Healthcare and Information Technology Professionals (Sixth Edition)

Health Informatics (HI) focuses on the application of information technology (IT) in healthcare to improve individual and population health, education and research. The goal of the textbook is to stimulate and educate healthcare and IT professionals and students about the key topics in this rapidly changing field. This extensively updated sixth edition reflects the changes in technology, policies and innovations that have occurred recently. Topics include HI overview, electronic health records, healthcare data analytics, health information exchange, architecture of information systems, evidence based medicine, consumer health informatics, HI ethics, quality improvement strategies and more. The 22 chapters feature learning objectives, case studies, recommended reading, future trends, key points, conclusions and over 1800 references. It is available as a paperback, eBook (PDF) and Kindle. Free Online Resources are available on the textbook companion website informaticseducation.org and an instructor's manual and slide libraries are available for instructors.

The lead editor and author Robert Hoyt MD FACP is a practicing internal medicine physician who has taught Health Informatics for the past decade and conducted clinical research. He believed that Health Informatics textbooks should be exciting and very current so he opted to put together a strong team of contributors and use publish-on-demand publishing to be sure each edition is published rapidly. He would not have been able to do this without the help of his physician wife Ann Yoshihashi MD.