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    Guide to medical informatics, the internet, and telemedicine
    Guide to health informatics / Enrico Coiera, Professor and Director, Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

    • Title:[Guide to medical informatics, the internet, and telemedicine]
      Guide to health informatics / Enrico Coiera, Professor and Director, Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
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    • Author/Creator:Coiera, Enrico, author.
    • Published/Created:Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2015]
      ©2015
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Medical informatics.
      Medicine--Information services.
      Telecommunication in medicine.
    • Medical Subjects: Medical Informatics.
      Computer Communication Networks.
      Medical Informatics Applications.
      Telemedicine.
    • Edition:Third edition.
    • Description:xxvi, 683 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
    • Summary:Highly recommended by JAMA, this essential textbooks provides a comprehensive yet accessible overview of the basic concepts of information and communication technologies in healthcare. This essential text provides a readable yet sophisticated overview of the basic concepts of information technologies as they apply in healthcare. Spanning areas as diverse as the electronic medical record, searching, protocols, and communications as well as the Internet, Enrico Coiera has succeeded in making this vast and complex area accessible and understandable to the non-specialist, while providing everything that students of medical informatics need to know to accompany their course. Key features: Comprehensive - complete coverage of this growing area in a single, manageable volume Relevant - updated and expanded to reflect current issues and the latest developments in the field, including the impact of social media, nation-scale health information systems, systems safety, augmented reality and surgical simulations, machine learning, and discovery systems Accessible - student-friendly design with tables, boxes, and chapter summaries is ideal as a course companion while lively text ensures it is also suitable for the casual reader to dip into Free online resources - including an extensive glossary, references linked to MedLine, MCQs for self testing, and discussion points for use in tutorials to stimulate debate Fully revised, the third edition of Guide to Health Informatics remains essential reading for all health science undergraduates, clinical health professionals, and health service managers who need to appreciate and understand the role of informatics and its associated technologies for optimal practice and service delivery.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 589-659) and index.
    • ISBN:9781444170498 (pbk. : alk. paper)
      144417049X (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Basic concepts in informatics
      1. Models
      2. Information
      3. Information systems
      pt. 2 Informatics skills
      4. Communicating
      5. Structuring
      6. Questioning
      7. Searching
      8. Making decisions
      pt. 3 Information systems in healthcare
      9. Information management systems
      10. electronic health record
      11. Designing and evaluating information and communication systems
      12. Implementation
      13. Information system safety
      14. Information economics
      pt. 4 Guideline- and protocol-based systems
      15. Guidelines, protocols and evidence-based healthcare
      16. Computer-based protocol systems
      17. Designing, disseminating and applying protocols
      pt. 5 Communication systems in healthcare
      18. Communication systems basics
      Interlude - the Internet and the World Wide Web
      19. Information and communication networks
      20. Social networks and social media interventions
      21. Telehealth and mobile health
      pt. 6 Language, coding and classification
      22. Terms, codes and classification
      23. Healthcare terminologies and classification systems
      24. Natural language and formal terminology
      pt. 7 Clinical decision support and analytics
      25. Clinical decision support systems
      Interlude
      artificial intelligence in medicine
      26. Computational reasoning methods
      27. Model building for decision support, data analysis and scientific discovery
      pt. 8 Specialized applications for health informatics
      28. Patient monitoring and control
      29. Population surveillance and public health informatics
      30. Bioinformatics
      31. Clinical bioinformatics and personalized medicine
      32. Consumer health informatics.
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