Health Informatics: Practical Guide for Healthcare and Information Technology Professionals

by Robert E. Hoyt (Editor), Nora Bailey (Editor), Ann Yoshihashi (Editor)

Health Informatics (HI) focuses on the application of information technology (IT) to the field of medicine to improve individual and population healthcare delivery, education and research. This extensively updated fifth edition reflects the current knowledge in Health Informatics and provides learning objectives, key points, case studies and references. Topics include: HI Overview; Healthcare Data, Information, and Knowledge; Electronic Health Records, Practice Management Systems; Health Information Exchange; Data Standards; Architectures of Information Systems;Health Information Privacy and Security; HI Ethics; Consumer HI; Mobile Technology; Online Medical Resources; Search Engines; Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Practice Guidelines; Disease Management and Registries; Quality Improvement Strategies; Patient Safety; Electronic Prescribing; Telemedicine; Picture Archiving and Communication Systems; Bioinformatics; Public HI; E-Research. Available as a printed copy and E-book.

Genres: Nonfiction

492 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2012

About the author

Bob Hoyt is a board certified Internal Medicine physician with experience in the private sector and the military. After retiring from the Navy he began teaching Medical Informatics at the University of West Florida. It was there he realized the paucity of current textbooks in the informatics realm. His first book was published in 2007 by Lulu.com, as have all subsequent edtions. He has also conducted clinical research at the Robert E Mitchell Prisoner of War Studies located in Pensacola, Florida.

The sixth edition is available as of 1 February 2014 at http://bit.ly/1egkwWz
Further details will be posted at www.informaticseducation.org. The digital version will be ready as well as an Instructor's Manual (free for faculty using the textbook)

Reviews

[Rachel Bayles · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book. One of the more exciting textbooks I've read. Filled with lots of details, which really excites the reader about this field. It's the perfect length to give you breadth, and some depth. Perfect introduction.

[Lisa Rapple · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book!

[Kate · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too wordy and not my favorite subject matter. They should get Alice Hoffman to edit it and it would be 1/2 the pages it is now.