Full Description
This brilliant guide to medical informatics is an easy to read overview of the basic concepts of information and communication technologies in healthcare. Not only does the book cover the complexities and implications of the increasing use of information technology in healthcare, but it also explores the basic principles of informatics that govern clinical decisions and behaviour. The 2nd edition of 'A Guide to Health Informatics' is particularly of interest for clinical health professionals and medical/health science students. As before, the emphasis throughout the book is clinically relevant. New to this restructured and updated edition is a section on searching for, structuring and using information, new material on evidence-based medicine and discussion of the internet and patient use. Key areas such as the Internet, the Web and healthcare have been updated to reflect current issues.
Contents
Introduction Part One Basic Concepts in Informatics Chapter 1 Models Chapter 2 Information Chapter 3 Information Systems Part Two Informatics Skills Chapter 4 Communicating Chapter 5 Structuring Chapter 6 Questioning Chapter 7 Searching Chapter 8 Making Decisions Part Three Information Systems in Healthcare Chapter 9 Information Management Systems Chapter 10 The electronic medical record Chapter 11 Designing and evaluating information systems Part Four Protocol-based Systems Chapter 12 Protocols and Evidence-based healthcare Chapter 13 Computer-based protocol systems in healthcare Chapter 14 Disseminating and applying protocols Chapter 15 Designing protocols Part Five Language, Coding and Classification Chapter 16 Terms, codes and classification Chapter 17 Healthcare terminologies and classification systems Chapter 18 The trouble with coding Part Six Communication Systems in Healthcare Chapter 19 Communication system basics Chapter 20 Communication technology Chapter 21 Clinical communication and telemedicine Part Seven The Internet Chapter 22 The Internet and World Wide Web Chapter 23 Web health services Chapter 24 Information Economics and the Internet Part Eight Clinical Decision Support Systems Chapter 25 Clinical Decision Support Systems Chapter 26 Intelligent Systems Chapter 27 Intelligent monitoring and control Chapter 28 Biosurveillance Chapter 29 Bioinformatics Glossary References
