ABC of Health Informatics
Published on 8. April 2009
56 pages
978-1-4443-1280-5 (ISBN)
Description
New addition to the ABC series looking at how technology can aidhealth care
This ABC focuses on how patient data, health knowledge, andlocal service information are managed during the routine tasks thatmake up clinical work. It looks at medical record keeping, how touse the information that records contain for clinical, qualityimprovement and research activities, how to use new media tocommunicate with clinical colleagues and patients, and theavailability and uses of clinical knowledge resources.
After a short introduction to health informatics, each chapteris organised around a typical patient scenario that illustratesinformation dilemmas arising in clinical consultations. These casestudies help make the link between prescribing and treatment.
A final chapter considers the implications of informatics andeHealth for the future of the health professions and their work. Italso includes a glossary of health informatics terms.
Click on the sample chapter above for a look at what is healthinformation.
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Frank Sullivan | Jeremy Wyatt
ABC of Health Informatics
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04/2006
BMJ Books
€52.81
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Persons
Frank Sullivan, Community Health Sciences Division, Centre forHealth Informatics, University of Dundee, UK
Jeremy Wyatt, Centre for Health Informatics, University ofDundee, UK
Content
1 What is health information?.
2 Is a consultation needed?.
3 Why is this patient here today?.
4 How decision support tools help define clinical problems.
5 How computers can help to share understanding withpatients.
6 How informatics tools help deal with patients'problems.
7 How computers help make efficient use of consultations.
8 Referral or follow-up?.
9 Keeping up: learning in the workplace.
10 Improving services with informatics tools.
11 Communication and navigation around the healthcaresystem.
12 eHealth and the future: promise or peril?.
Glossary.
Index
