What if your cell phone could detect cancer cells circulating in your blood or warn you of an imminent heart attack? Mobile wireless digital devices, including smartphones and tablets with seemingly limitless functionality, have brought about radical changes in our lives, providing hyper-connectivity to social networks and cloud computing. But the digital world has hardly pierced the medical ...

Manufacturer: Basic Books
Written By: Eric Topol

Completely updated, the Second Edition of Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge covers the history of healthcare informatics, current issues, basic informatics concepts, and health information management applications. The text includes key terms, case studies, best practice examples, critical thinking exercises, and web resources.

Manufacturer: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Written By: Dee McGonigle, Kathleen Mastrian

HANDBOOK OF INFORMATICS FOR NURSES & HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS, 5/e is a complete and up-to-date overview of the key issues related to adoption and use of health information technology and nursing informatics, with detailed practical information to support students and professionals in the field. Intended to address all the ...

Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
Written By: Toni Lee Hebda, Patricia Czar

This comprehensive text reviews the concepts and applications of nursing informatics. Starting with an introduction to nursing informatics, the contents proceed from Unit One which covers computer basics to Unit Five which examines skills and techniques for using the end product of informatics: data. Other units review the effects that the Internet is having on healthcare, the ins and outs of ...

Manufacturer: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Written By: Jeanne Sewell, Linda Thede

The Best Selling Text in the FieldUpdated for the New Era of Health Care IT"This is the most comprehensive and authoritative book available for the field today."—Mark L. Diana, PhD, assistant professor and MHA program director, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University"With health care information technology now in the national policy spotlight, this ...

Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass
Written By: Karen A. Wager, Frances W. Lee, John P. Glaser

Now significantly expanded and fully updated, IN FORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS, 4/e  is the ideal information technology primer for readers working in any healthcare field, including allied health, nursing, medical/dental/pharmaceutical assisting, or medical administration. It fully addresses each key issue ...

Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
Written By: Lillian Burke, Barbara Weill

The Complete Healthcare Information Technology Reference and Exam Guide Gain the skills and knowledge required to implement and support healthcare IT (HIT) systems in various clinical and healthcare business settings. Healthcare Information Technology Exam Guide for CompTIA Healthcare IT Technician and HIT Pro Certifications prepares IT professionals to transition into HIT ...

Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Written By: Kathleen McCormick, Brian Gugerty

Heavily updated and revised from the successful first edition Appeals to a wide range of informatics professionals, from students to on-site medical information system administrators Includes case studies and real world system evaluations References and self-tests for feedback and motivation after each chapter Great for teaching purposes, the book is recommended for courses offered at ...

Manufacturer: Springer
Written By: Charles P. Friedman, Jeremy Wyatt

Co-written by a certified Project Management Professional and an M.D., Project Management for Healthcare Information Technology presents an effective methodology that encompasses standards and best practices from project management, information technology (IT) management, and change management for a streamlined transition to digital medicine.   Each management ...

Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Professional
Written By: Scott Coplan, David Masuda

Informatics the study of the use of computer hardware, software, systematic languages, and data manipulation to collect and apply information is united with health care in this new interdisciplinary textbook. It focuses on topics in informatics relevant to all fields of health care, in a textbook format complete with chapter outlines, objectives, key terms, and discussion questions. A unique ...

Manufacturer: Mosby
Written By: Sheila P. Englebardt PhD RN CAN, Ramona Nelson PhD RN BC, Ramona Nelson