Guide to Health Informatics 2^nd Edition

Enrico Coiera

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Table of Contents and Sample Chapters

Preface

Introduction

PART 1 - Basic Concepts in Informatics

• Chapter 1 - Models
• Chapter 2 - Information
• Chapter 3 – Information Systems

Part 2 - Informatics Skills

• Chapter 4 - Communicating
• Chapter 5 - Structuring
• Chapter 6 – Questioning
• Chapter 7 – Searching
• Chapter 8 – Making Decisions

Part 3 - Information Systems in Healthcare

• Chapter 9 - Information management systems
• Chapter 10 - The Electronic Medical Record
• Chapter 11 - Designing and evaluating Information Systems

Part 4 - Protocol-based Systems

• Chapter 12 - Protocols and Evidence-based healthcare
• Chapter 13 – Computer-based protocol systems in healthcare
• Chapter 14 - Disseminating and Applying Protocols
• Chapter 15 – Designing Protocols

Part 5 – Language, Coding and Classification

• Chapter 16 - Terms, Codes and Classification
• Chapter 17 - Healthcare Terminologies and Classification Systems
• Chapter 18 - The Trouble with Coding

Part 6 - Communication Systems in Healthcare

• Chapter 19 - Communication System basics
• Chapter 20 - Communication Technology
• Chapter 21 - Clinical Communication and Telemedicine

Part 7 - The Internet

• Chapter 22 - The Internet and World Wide Web
• Chapter 23 – Web health services
• Chapter 24 – Information economics and the Internet

Part 8 - Decision Support Systems

• Chapter 25 - Clinical decision support systems
• Chapter 26 - Intelligent Systems
• Chapter 27 - Intelligent Monitoring and Control
• Chapter 28 – Biosurveillance
• Chapter 29 - Bioinformatics

Glossary

References

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