Guide to Health Informatics, 3rd Edition

This essential text provides a readable yet sophisticated overview of the basic concepts of information technologies as they apply in healthcare. Spanning areas as diverse as the electronic medical record, searching, protocols, and communications as well as the Internet, Enrico Coiera has succeeded in making this vast and complex area accessible and understandable to the non-specialist, while providing everything that students of medical informatics need to know to accompany their course.

Fully revised, the third edition of Guide to Health Informatics remains essential reading for all health science undergraduates, clinical health professionals, and health service managers who need to appreciate and understand the role of informatics and its associated technologies for optimal practice and service delivery.

Table of Contents

chapter 1: Models
Chapter 2: Information
Chapter 3: Information systems
chapter 4: Communicating
Chapter 5: Structuring
Chapter 6: Questioning
Chapter 7: Searching
Chapter 8: Making decisions
chapter 9: Information management systems
Chapter 10: The electronic health record
Chapter 11: Designing and evaluating information and communication systems
chapter 12: Implementation
Chapter 13: Information system safety
Chapter 14: Information economics
chapter 15: Guidelines, protocols and evidence-based healthcare
chapter 16: Computer-based protocol systems
Chapter 17: Designing, disseminating and applying protocols
Chapter 18: Communication systems basics
Interlude – the Internet and the World Wide Web
Chapter 19: Information and communication networks
chapter 20: Social networks and social media interventions
Chapter 21: Telehealth and mobile health
chapter 22: Terms, codes and classification
Chapter 23: Healthcare terminologies and classification systems
Chapter 24: Natural language and formal terminology
chapter 25: Clinical decision support systems
Interlude – artificial intelligence in medicine
chapter 26: Computational reasoning methods
chapter 27: Model building for decision support, data analysis and scientific discovery
chapter 28: Patient monitoring and control
chapter 29: Population surveillance and public health informatics
chapter 30: Bioinformatics
chapter 31: Clinical bioinformatics and personalized medicine
chapter 32: Consumer health informatics