Medical Informatics: Practical Guide for Healthcare and Information Technology Professionals Fourth Edition (Hoyt, Medical informatics)

Medical Informatics combines information technology (IT) and clinical medicine to improve healthcare delivery, education and research. Our goal is to help healthcare and IT professionals meet the challenge of keeping up to date on the key topics in this rapidly evolving field. This extensively updated fourth edition with over 1300 references includes the following chapters: Overview of Medical Informatics, Electronic Health Records, Practice Management Systems, Health Information Exchange, Architectures of Information Systems, Data Standards, Privacy and Security, Consumer Health Informatics, Online Medical Resources, Search Engines, Mobile Technology, Evidence Based Medicine, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Disease Management and Disease Registries, Quality Improvement Strategies, Patient Safety and HIT, Electronic Prescribing, Telehealth and Telemedicine, Picture Archiving and Communication Systems, Bioinformatics, Public Health Informatics, E-Research, Emerging Trends in HIT. Available also as an ebook.