This book is designed to meet the needs of students at the beginning of their course of study in health information technology - both as a work-based task-oriented function and as a part of a larger profession of health information management. Individuals who wish to acquire basic knowledge of health information technology and how it fits into the health care arena will find this text ...

Manufacturer: Saunders
Written By: Nadinia A. Davis MBA CIA CPA RHIA, Melissa LaCour RHIA

Starting with an accessible primer, this book introduces the reader to the tools and methodology of Structured Systems Analysis as well as the nuances of the Medications domain. The first part of the book proceeds with a top-down decomposition along two main paths: Data in Motion - Workflows: Context and Data Flow Diagrams, Processes, Activities Data at ...

Manufacturer: Productivity Press
Written By: Alexander Scarlat MD

This book is an indispensable tool and a practical guide for nurses and health care professionals as it details the implementation processes of both small and large clinical computer systems used in various health care settings. Combining theory and research, this book explains system implementation, with material drawn from multiple specialties, such as nursing informatics, information ...

Manufacturer: Springer
Written By: Eleanor Callahan Hunt, Sara Breckenridge Sproat, Rebecca Rutherford Kitzmiller

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

IT professionals can learn how to launch a career in health information technologyGovernment regulation is mandating that all physician practices, hospitals, labs, etc. move to electronic health records (EHR) by 2014, which, in turn, will create a demand for IT professionals to help medical facilities make this transition as smooth as possible. This book helps IT professionals make the ...

Manufacturer: Sybex
Written By: Patrick Wilson, Scott McEvoy

An introductory computer literacy text for nurses and other healthcare students, Introduction to Computers for Healthcare Professionals explains hardware, popular software programs, operating systems, and computer assisted communication. The Fifth Edition of this best-selling text has been revised and now includes content on: Online storage; Communication and online learning including info on ...

Manufacturer: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Written By: Irene Joos, Ramona Nelson, Marjorie J. Smith

Dr. Rose provides health professionals with the insight needed to function in a technologically complex healtcare environment. This is a must-read book for health care professionals who are impacted by automation and technology. It is also a great book for IT professionals to read in order to gain insight into the typical reactions they receive from physicians and nurses about technology. Thanks ...

Manufacturer: Amer College of Physician
Written By: Jeffrey S. Rose

Too often, healthcare workers are led to believe that medical informatics is a complex field that can only be mastered by teams of professional programmers. This is simply not the case. With just a few dozen simple algorithms, easily implemented with open source programming languages, you can fully utilize the medical information contained in clinical and research datasets. The common ...

Manufacturer: Chapman and Hall/CRC
Written By: Jules J. Berman

Image processing is a hands-on discipline, and the best way to learn is by doing. This text takes its motivation from medical applications and uses real medical images and situations to illustrate and clarify concepts and to build intuition, insight and understanding. Designed for advanced undergraduates and graduate students who will become end-users of digital image processing, it covers the ...

Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Written By: Geoff Dougherty

Informatics has the potential to transform the world of behavioral practitioners to enable them to assist people more easily. This book focuses on informatics-related topics that all disciplines connected to the behavioral health will find very useful for their day-to-day practice. This book provides an overview of the state of the art in behavioral health care informatics, addresses the ...

Manufacturer: Springer