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Health Information: Management of a Strategic Resource

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This book has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the vast technological changes in the field for 2-year or 4-year health management programs. This text focuses on health data, its collection and use. It emphasizes the deployment of information technology and the role of the HIM professional in the development of the electronic health record.

Managing Health Care Information Systems: A Practical Approach for Health Care Executives

Karen A. Wager, Frances Wickham, DBA Lee, John P. Glaser

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Managing Health Care Information Systems teaches key principles, methods, and applications necessary to provide access to timely, complete, accurate, legible, and relevant health care information. Written by experts for students and professionals, this well-timed book provides detailed information on the foundations of health care information management; the history, legacy, and future of health care information systems; the architecture and technologies that support health care information systems; and the challenges for senior management in information technology, such as organization, alignment with strategic planning, governance, planning initiatives, and assessing and achieving value. Comprehensive in scope, Managing Health Care Information Systems includes substantial discussion of data quality, regulation, laws, and standards; strategies for system acquisition, use, and support; and standards and security. Each chapter includes an overview and summary of the material, as well as learning activities. The activities provide students with the opportunity to explore more fully the concepts presented.

Public Health Informatics and Information Systems

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This book covers all aspects of public health informatics and discusses the creation and management of an information technology infrastructure that is essential in linking state and local organizations in their efforts to gather data for the surveillance and prevention. Public health officials will have to understand basic principles of information resource management in order to make the appropriate technology choices that will guide the future of their organizations. As the major topic at the American Medical Informatics Association's (AMIA) spring congress in 2001, public health has moved into the spotlight, given the importance of implementing a population-based health approach and to addressing chronic health conditions. This book marks the first systematic effort to provide informatics principles and examples of practice in a public health context. In doing so, it clarifies the ways in which newer information technologies will improve individual and community health status. This book's primary purpose is to consolidate key information and promote a strategic approach to information systems and development, making it a resource for use by faculty and students of public health, as well as the practicing public health professional. Chapter highights include: The Governmental and Legislative Context of Informatics; Assessing the Value of Information Systems; Ethics, Information Technology, and Public Health; and Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security. Review questions are featured at the end of every chapter. Aside from its use for public health professionals, the book will be used by schools of public health, clinical and public health nurses and students, schools of social work, allied health, and environmental sciences. Drs. O'Carroll and Yasnoff are public health specialists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Nursing Informatics: A Foundation of Knowledge

Dee Mcgonigle

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Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge covers the history of healthcare informatics, current issues, basic informatics concepts, and health information management applications. With comprehensive introductory chapters that explain the core sciences of nursing informatics, students will understand Information Systems and incorporate their own knowledge for further comprehension. Based on The Foundation of Knowledge Model© 2007, this text explains how nursing informatics relates to knowledge acquisition, knowledge processing, knowledge generation, knowledge dissemination and feedback, all of which build the science of nursing. Key Features include: Key terms Case studies Best practice examples Critical thinking exercises Web resources Varied perspectives from Nursing Informatics experts

Handbook of Informatics for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals (4th Edition)

Toni Lee Hebda, Patricia Czar

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Handbook of Informatics for Nurses and other Healthcare Prof 4 out of 5 stars.
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I am currently studying Nursing Informatics in a Master's Certification Course. I loved this book! It was user friendly and covered a variety of topics. It was very easy to read and understand. Since this is a new specialty in Nursing, most of us are starting at ground zero. This is a great place to start!

For non-Informatics Professionals 4 out of 5 stars.
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This is a very good book for an introductory course in Nursing Informatics. If you are already a nurse informaticist, you will find little new here, however.

Editorial Review:

This useful handbook introduces nurses and other health care professionals to the most current application of computer-related technology in the health care environment. Included are the various forms of electronic communication and ways to use it more effectively. New coverage of web-based technology, search tools, and evaluation criteria for online material are presented along with regulatory and accreditation requirements, such as HIPAA. Completely updated, the fourth edition offers a clearly written overview of informatics, as well as practical applications of computer-based education for day-to-day use.

Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine (Health Informatics)

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The practice of modern medicine requires sophisticated information technologies with which to manage patient information, plan diagnostic procedures, interpret laboratory results, and conduct research. This book, inspired by a Stanford University training program developed to introduce health professionals to computer applications in modern medical care, fills the need for a high quality text in computers and medicine, and meets the growing demand by practitioners, researchers, and students for a comprehensive introduction to key topics in the field. The work is designed for a broad audience interested in the intersection of computer science and medicine.

Completely revised and expanded, the Third Edition (previously titled "Medical Informatics") includes several new chapters filled with brand new material.  This book will provide both a conceptual framework and a practical approach for the implementation and management of IT used to improve the delivery of health care. Designed for use by professors and students of medical informatics and for practicing professionals, this book will focus on the role of computers in the provision of medical services. Biomedial Informatics, Third Edition, provides the conceptual base needed to comprehend and utilize medical informatics through easy to understand examples that demonstrate how computers assist in the delivery of health care.  This text also includes pointers to additional literature, chapter summaries, and concise definition of recurring terms for self-study or classroom use.

Information Management For Health Care Professions (The Health Information Management Series)

Merida Johns

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Managers of health information will appreciate the real-world focus of Information Management for Health Care Professions, 2E. While covering all the foundational content, it focuses on the manager's role in utilizing data as an asset and planning and setting procedures for its proper storage, maintenance, usage, and security. Updated chapters explore the latest legislation affecting health data as well as the utilization of data warehousing, web technologies and database management systems in health information practice. Review questions and other pedagogical features make it an ideal review text and professional reference.

Introduction to Computers for Healthcare Professionals, Fourth Edition (Introduction to Computers for Healthcare Professionals)

Irene Joos

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Very good book in its subject 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book came better than expected. it is really well designed and full of relevent info which I did not know before although it is writenin in an easy way. it is very suitable for class study because each chapter is followed by multiple assignments and excercises. This book is highly recommended as a start for each one going to work in Health informatics field.

Editorial Review:

This workbook provides a foundation for understanding the computer world. It is as easily adaptable to introductory computer courses for health professionals as to classes in nursing fundamentals or administration.

Student Study Guide for Health Information: Management of a Strategic Resource

Mervat Abdelhak, Sara Grostick, Mary Alice Hanken, Ellen B. Jacobs

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This helpful Study Guide offers in-depth study and review of the most important facts and information from Health Information: Management of a Strategic Resource, 3rd Edition. Using real-life case studies with accompanying medical records, it challenges you to apply new HIM skills and concepts to a variety of realistic scenarios.

• This guide offers useful study tips and test-taking techniques, with information on preparing performance grids, working with critical competence questions, and understanding AHIMA domains and subdomains.
• For each chapter in the textbook, the Study Guide features a pretest review and a chapter review test, both offering answers with rationales to help you identify areas where more study is needed.
• Critical thinking assignments for each chapter encourage you to apply the new concepts and skill you are learning in the textbook to real-world situations, such as:
• Preparing an electronic health care record scenario
• Explaining how separate parties use health care data
• Preparing a training program for a systems implementation or upgrade
• Writing a brief on implementing a wireless network
• A comprehensive certification section prepares you for exams with valuable information on exam applications, content, cost, scoring, and test-taking strategies.
• An accompanying Evolve website offers additional multiple-choice, true/false, and matching questions for even more practice putting important concepts into practice.

Principles of Biomedical Informatics

PhD, Ira J. Kalet

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This book provides a foundation for understanding the fundamentals of biomedical informatics, which deals with the storage, retrieval, and use of biomedical data for biological problem solving and medical decision making. It covers the application of these principles to the three main biomedical domains of basic biology, clinical medicine, and public health. The author offers a coherent summary, focusing on the three core concept areas of biomedical data and knowledge representation, biomedical information access, biomedical decision making, and information and technology use in biomedical contexts.

* Develops principles and methods for representing biomedical data, using information in context and in decision making, and accessing information to assist the medical community in using data to its full potential

* Provides a series of principles for expressing biomedical data and ideas in a computable form to integrate biological, clinical, and public health applications

* Includes a discussion of user interfaces, interactive graphics, and knowledge resources and reference material on programming languages to provide medical informatics programmers with the technical tools to develop systems