Health Informatics: Practical Guide. Seventh Edition

The seventh edition (2018) comprises many of the chapters included in the sixth edition and the supplement with new content in each chapter and multiple new authors. We are honored to have William R. Hersh, MD, from Oregon Health & Science University, as co-editor of this edition and main editor of all future editions. Importantly, he is the main contributor to multiple chapters. We will continue the same overall chapter framework. Chapters will begin with learning objectives, followed by an introduction and history of the subject, and conclude with challenges/barriers, resources, recommended reading, future trends, key points, conclusions, and references. In the seventh edition, we focused on post-HITECH Act changes in health informatics and other interesting developments in the field that have occurred since we published the sixth edition four years ago.

Several new authors have been added to the existing authors. The chapter on electronic health records was co-authored by Dr. Vishnu Mohan from the Oregon Health & Science University. Brian Dixon from the Regenstrief Institute authored the chapter on public health informatics. Tom Martin from Temple University co-authored the chapter on telemedicine. John Rasmussen is the new author of the Privacy and Security chapter, and Harry Burke is the new author of the chapter on patient safety, quality, and value.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Overview of Health Informatics

Chapter 2 Healthcare Data, Information and Knowledge

Chapter 3 Computer and Network Architectures

Chapter 4 Electronic Health Records

Chapter 5 Standards and Interoperability

Chapter 6 Health Information Exchange

Chapter 7 Healthcare Data Analytics

Chapter 8 Clinical Decision Support

Chapter 9 Safety, Quality and Value

Chapter 10 Health Information Privacy and Security

Chapter 11 Health Informatics Ethics

Chapter 12 Consumer Health Informatics

Chapter 13 Mobile Technology and mHealth

Chapter 14 Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Practice Guidelines

Chapter 15 Information Retrieval and Medical Knowledge Resources

Chapter 16 Medical Imaging Informatics

Chapter 17 Telemedicine

Chapter 18 Bioinformatics

Chapter 19 Public Health Informatics

Chapter 20 E-Research

Chapter 21 International Health Informatics

Chapter 22 Introduction to Data Science