ABSTRACT

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 an

chapter 1|10 pages

Models

chapter 2|10 pages

Information

chapter 3|14 pages

Information systems

chapter 4|14 pages

Communicating

chapter 5|12 pages

Structuring

chapter 6|14 pages

Questioning

chapter 7|16 pages

Searching

chapter 8|24 pages

Making decisions

chapter 9|10 pages

Information management systems

chapter 10|18 pages

The electronic health record

chapter 12|22 pages

Implementation

chapter 13|26 pages

Information system safety

chapter 14|16 pages

Information economics

chapter 16|16 pages

Computer-based protocol systems

chapter 18|12 pages

Communication systems basics

chapter 19|24 pages

Information and communication networks

chapter 21|28 pages

Telehealth and mobile health

chapter 22|10 pages

Terms, codes and classification

chapter 24|16 pages

Natural language and formal terminology

chapter 25|16 pages

Clinical decision support systems

chapter 26|16 pages

Computational reasoning methods

chapter 28|22 pages

Patient monitoring and control

chapter 30|22 pages

Bioinformatics

chapter 32|16 pages

Consumer health informatics