Handbook of Informatics for Nurses & Healthcare Professionals

by Toni Hebda, Patricia Czar

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 concepts, skills, and tasks professionals need to achieve the nation’s healthcare information technology goals, it contains three major General Computer Information, Health Care Information Systems, and Specialty Applications. Major themes of privacy, confidentiality, and information security are woven throughout; project management is introduced in the context of strategic planning, and addressed in many other chapters. This edition contains extensive new coverage throughout, along with eight new chapters addressing issues such as Personal Health Records (PHRs), Health Information Exchanges (HIEs), usability, and consumer education.

624 pages, Paperback

First published March 18, 2012

Reviews

[Robin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read for Fall 2012 NURS 736 Technical Solutions for Knowledge Generation in Health Care.

[Daniel Mala · Rating 3 out of 5]

Survived Advanced informatics! Book was done well enough and covered all the topics clearly. It was a dry topic to some degree and the text didn’t do much to change that. Useful information though. Cheers!