Key Advances in Clinical Informatics
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Key Advances in Clinical Informatics

Transforming Health Care through Health Information Technology

1st Edition - June 28, 2017

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  • Editors: Aziz Sheikh, David Bates, Adam Wright, Kathrin Cresswell
  • Paperback ISBN: 9780128095232
  • eBook ISBN: 9780128095256

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Key Advances in Clinical Informatics: Transforming Health Care through Health Information Technology provides a state-of-the-art overview of the most current subjects in clinical informatics. Leading international authorities write short, accessible, well-referenced chapters which bring readers up-to-date with key developments and likely future advances in the relevant subject areas. This book encompasses topics such as inpatient and outpatient clinical information systems, clinical decision support systems, health information technology, genomics, mobile health, telehealth and cloud-based computing. Additionally, it discusses privacy, confidentiality and security required for health data. Edited by internationally recognized authorities in the field of clinical informatics, the book is a valuable resource for medical/nursing students, clinical informaticists, clinicians in training, practicing clinicians and allied health professionals with an interest in health informatics.

Key Features

  • Presents a state-of-the-art overview of the most current subjects in clinical informatics.
  • Provides summary boxes of key points at the beginning of each chapter to impart relevant messages in an easily digestible fashion
  • Includes internationally acclaimed experts contributing to chapters in one accessible text
  • Explains and illustrates through international case studies to show how the evidence presented is applied in a real world setting

Readership

Medical/nursing students, clinical informaticists, clinicians in training, practicing clinicians and allied health professionals with an interest in health informatics

Table of Contents

  • 1. An Overview of Clinical Informatics
    2. Inpatient Clinical Information Systems
    3. Outpatient Clinical Information Systems
    4. Clinical Documentation
    5. Interoperability
    6. Privacy, Confidentiality and Security
    7. HIT Policy
    8. Health Information Technology and Value
    9. Organizational Issues
    10. Medication, Laboratory, and Radiology Testing
    11. Bioinformatics and Precision Medicine
    12. Knowledge Management and Computerized Guidelines
    13. Mobile Health
    14. HIT and Safety
    15. Predictive Analytics and Population Health
    16. An Apps-Based Information Economy in Healthcare
    17. Cloud-based Computing
    18. Social/consumer Informatics
    19. Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
    20. Conclusions and future directions

Product details

  • No. of pages: 334
  • Language: English
  • Copyright: © Academic Press 2017
  • Published: June 28, 2017
  • Imprint: Academic Press
  • Paperback ISBN: 9780128095232
  • eBook ISBN: 9780128095256

About the Editors

Aziz Sheikh

Professor of Primary Care Research and Development and Co-Director, Centre of Medical Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, UK Areas of expertise: Allergy and Respiratory Medicine; eHealth; Patient Safety; and Ethnicity, Religion and Health.

Affiliations and Expertise

Professor of Primary Care Research and Development Co-Director of the Centre of Medical Informatics

David Bates

Chair, Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, USA Areas of expertise: Patient Safety and Health Information Technology

Affiliations and Expertise

Chair, Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, USA

Adam Wright

Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, USA Areas of expertise: Clinical Decision Support and Data Mining.

Affiliations and Expertise

Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, USA

Kathrin Cresswell

CSO Post-doctoral Fellow, Centre of Medical Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, UK Areas of expertise: Patient Safety and Qualitative Health Services Research.

Affiliations and Expertise

CSO Post-doctoral Fellow, Centre of Medical Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, UK

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