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Health informatics : an interprofessional approach /

Title:
Health informatics : an interprofessional approach /
Format:
Book
Institution:
MCPHS Boston, MCPHS Worcester
Contents:
Unit 1. Background and foundational information -- Introduction: the evolution of health informatics -- Theoretical foundations of health informatics -- Evidence-based practice and informatics -- Knowledge discovery, data mining, and practice-based evidence -- Program evaluation and research techniques -- Unit 2. Information systems in healthcare delivery -- Electronic health records and applications for managing patient care -- Applications for managing institutions delivering healthcare -- Telehealth and applications for delivering care at a distance -- Home health and related community-based systems -- Clinical decision support systems in healthcare -- Public health informatics -- Technical infrastructure to support healthcare -- Unit 3. Participatory healthcare informatics and healthcare on the internet -- The evolving ePatient -- Social networking and other web-based applications in healthcare -- Personal health records (PHRs) -- Unit 4: Project management: tools and procedures -- Identifying and selecting an information system solution -- Implementing and upgrading an information system solution -- Health information systems: downtime and disaster recovery -- Unit 5. Quality, usability and standards in informatics -- Privacy, confidentiality, security and data integrity -- Patient safety and quality initiatives in informatics -- Improving the user experience for health information technology products -- Standards -- Unit 6. Governance and organizational structures for informatics -- Health information technology governance -- Legal issues, federal regulations and accreditation -- Health policy and informatics -- Unit 7. Education and informatics -- Informatics in the curriculum for healthcare professionals -- Distance education: applications, techniques and issues -- Informatics tools for educating health professionals -- Simulation in healthcare education -- Unit 8. International informatics efforts -- International efforts, issues, and innovations -- Unit 9. The present and future -- Future directions and future research in health informatics.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
MCPHS Circulation - Boston Campus
R858.A1 H425 2014 – Available
MCPHS Circulation - Worcester Campus
R858.A1 H425 2014 – Available