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)