Handbook of Informatics for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals examines key issues in adopting and applying healthcare IT and nursing informatics. The contributing authors cover the concepts, skills, and tasks needed to achieve the goals of transforming healthcare delivery.
The 7th Edition reflects rapid changes in healthcare IT and informatics. It looks at how the global pandemic has forced a re-examination of healthcare and healthcare delivery, escalated the deployment of IT to track infection and support care, and paved the way for a greater role for nursing and healthcare informatics.
Features –
1. Includes new Topics in Healthcare IT and Informatics:
A. Chapter Updates: New Chapter 3 addresses the challenges of technology in healthcare, while Chapter 20 explores the future directions of nursing informatics on a national and international scale.
B. Emerging Content: Includes topics on equitable and inclusive healthcare, genomics for population health, international collaborations, and combating structural, systemic, and institutional racism.
2. Chapters have been thoroughly revised to reflect the current and evolving practice of healthcare IT and informatics.
3. Presents content on information systems training and presents it within the context of workforce development.
About the Author -
Toni Hebda, PhD, RN-C, CNE, is a professor with the Chamberlain College of Nursing MSN Program, teaching in the nursing informatics track. She has held several academic and clinical positions over the years and worked as a system analyst. Her interest in informatics provided a focus for her dissertation, and subsequently led her to help establish a regional nursing informatics group, obtain a graduate degree in information science, and conduct research related to informatics. She is a reviewer for the Online Journal of Nursing Informatics. She is a member of informatics groups and has presented and published in the field.
Melody Rose, DNP, RN, CPHIMS, is an adjunct instructor with Franklin University in the MS Health Informatics and DS Healthcare Administration programs, as well as a practicing clinician in the field of Healthcare Informatics. She is a 2014 graduate of Duke University School of Nursing DNP program and a 2011 graduate of Walden University School of Nursing MSN, Informatics Specialty. Dr. Rose has organized health informatics seminars, presented implementation strategy lectures for a major pharmaceutical company, and lectured internationally in the field of Nursing Informatics.
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Book Contents –
1. An Overview of Informatics in Healthcare 2. Informatics Theory and Practice 3. The Challenges of Technology in Healthcare 4. Electronic Resources for Healthcare Professionals 5. Using Informatics to Support Evidence-Based Practice and Research 6. Policy, Legislation, and Regulation Issues for Informatics Practice 7. Electronic Health Information and Record Systems 8. Strategic Planning and Project Management Concepts for HIT and Quality Improvement Initiatives 9. Healthcare Information Technology: Implementation, Maintenance, and Evaluation 10. Improving the Usability of Health Informatics Applications 11. Information Networks and Information Exchange 12. Workforce Development 13. Information Security and Confidentiality 14. Continuity Planning and Management and Disaster Recovery 15. The Role of Standardized Terminology and Language in Informatics 16. Using Informatics to Educate 17. Consumer Health Informatics 18. Connected Healthcare (Telehealth and Technology-Enabled Healthcare)
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