National Health Education Standards

National Health Education Standards
Author: Joint Committee on National Health Education Standards
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Health education
ISBN: 9780944235737

Concluding a two-year review and revision process supported by the American Cancer Society and conducted by an expert panel of health education professionals, this second edition of the National Health Education Standards is the foremost reference in establishing, promoting, and supporting health-enhancing behaviors for students in all grade levels. These guidelines and standards provide a framework for teachers, administrators, and policy makers in designing or selecting curricula, allocating instructional resources, and assessing student achievement and progress; provide students, families, and communities with concrete expectations for health education; and advocate for quality health education in schools, including primary cancer prevention for children and youth.

Public Health Informatics and Information Systems

Public Health Informatics and Information Systems
Author: J.A. Magnuson
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 515
Release: 2020-07-17
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3030412156

This 3rd edition of a classic textbook examines the context and background of public health informatics, explores the technology and science underlying the field, discusses challenges and emerging solutions, reviews many key public health information systems, and includes practical, case-based studies to guide the reader through the topic. The editors have expanded the text into new areas that have become important since publication of the previous two editions due to changing technologies and needs in the field, as well as updating and augmenting much of the core content. The book contains learning objectives, overviews, future directions, and review questions to assist readers to engage with this vast topic. The Editors and their team of well-known contributors have built upon the foundation established by the previous editions to provide the reader with a comprehensive and forward-looking review of public health informatics. The breadth of material in Public Health Informatics and Information Systems, 3rd edition makes it suitable for both undergraduate and graduate coursework in public health informatics, enabling instructors to select chapters that best fit their students’ needs.

Digital Infrastructure for the Learning Health System

Digital Infrastructure for the Learning Health System
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2011-10-21
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309154162

Like many other industries, health care is increasingly turning to digital information and the use of electronic resources. The Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care hosted three workshops to explore current efforts and opportunities to accelerate progress in improving health and health care with information technology systems.

E-Health

E-Health
Author: George Demiris
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2004
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781586034429

Title Page -- Contents -- Message from James K. Scott, Director of the European Union Center at the University of Missouri -- A Comprehensive Model for Evaluating Telemedicine -- Home Based E-Health Applications -- Mr. Young's Doctor:How Must Physicians Be Prepared for Practice? -- E-Health Tools and Social Workers -- Telework for Persons with Disabilities in the EU and the USA: What Can We Learn from Each Other? -- Evidence-Based Retrieval in E-Health -- The Impact of Genomics on E-Health -- Privacy Enhancing Techniques in E-Hea!th: An Overview -- Health Captology - Application of Persuasive Technologies to Health Care -- Speak-ER: An Audible Web-Based Medical Record for Emergency Patients -- MobiHealth: Ambulant Patient Monitoring Over Next Generation Public Wireless Networks -- Service Level Web Monitoring in the Field Management of Emergencies -- E-Health in the Scandinavian Countries -- Author Index

Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century

Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century
Author: Charlotte Weaver
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 622
Release: 2010-02-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1498757332

Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century is the follow-up to the highly successful, award-winning first edition. Published in 2006, the first edition was a critical resource in chronicling the huge historical shift in nursing linked to the explosion of EHR national strategies and health policies around the globe. This updated edition, co-publis

Underlying Standards that Support Population Health Improvement

Underlying Standards that Support Population Health Improvement
Author: Laura Bright
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2017-11-10
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1351649264

This book highlights success stories and challenges to implementing health IT standards. The narrative of each chapter demonstrates how standards further interoperable health data exchange, especially in the service of advancing tools to monitor population health. These are critical stories that demonstrate to an international community of health and IT experts how to bring the right stakeholders together and bridge classic divides between software architects and clinical end users, health system decision-makers and standard authors.

Medical Informatics

Medical Informatics
Author: Kenneth R. Ong
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2015-03-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1040081800

This third edition of HIMSS' award-winning, bestseller explores how clinicians, patients, and health IT stakeholders are collaborating to support high-value care through health IT. Medical Informatics: An Executive Primer continues to explore information technologies applied in hospital settings, at the physician's office and in patients' homes to

Health Informatics - E-Book

Health Informatics - E-Book
Author: Ramona Nelson
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 691
Release: 2016-12-08
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0323402259

Awarded second place in the 2017 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Information Technology category. See how information technology intersects with health care! Health Informatics: An Interprofessional Approach, 2nd Edition prepares you for success in today's technology-filled healthcare practice. Concise coverage includes information systems and applications such as electronic health records, clinical decision support, telehealth, ePatients, and social media tools, as well as system implementation. New to this edition are topics including data science and analytics, mHealth, principles of project management, and contract negotiations. Written by expert informatics educators Ramona Nelson and Nancy Staggers, this edition enhances the book that won a 2013 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year award! - Experts from a wide range of health disciplines cover the latest on the interprofessional aspects of informatics — a key Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) initiative and a growing specialty area in nursing. - Case studies encourage higher-level thinking about how concepts apply to real-world nursing practice. - Discussion questions challenge you to think critically and to visualize the future of health informatics. - Objectives, key terms and an abstract at the beginning of each chapter provide an overview of what you will learn. - Conclusion and Future Directions section at the end of each chapter describes how informatics will continue to evolve as healthcare moves to an interprofessional foundation. - NEW! Updated chapters reflect the current and evolving practice of health informatics, using real-life healthcare examples to show how informatics applies to a wide range of topics and issues. - NEW mHealth chapter discusses the use of mobile technology, a new method of health delivery — especially for urban or under-served populations — and describes the changing levels of responsibility for both patients and providers. - NEW Data Science and Analytics in Healthcare chapter shows how Big Data — as well as analytics using data mining and knowledge discovery techniques — applies to healthcare. - NEW Project Management Principles chapter discusses proven project management tools and techniques for coordinating all types of health informatics-related projects. - NEW Contract Negotiations chapter describes strategic methods and tips for negotiating a contract with a healthcare IT vendor. - NEW Legal Issues chapter explains how federal regulations and accreditation processes may impact the practice of health informatics. - NEW HITECH Act chapter explains the regulations relating to health informatics in the Health Information Technology for Education and Clinical Health Act as well as the Meaningful Use and Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015.

E-Health, Telehealth, and Telemedicine

E-Health, Telehealth, and Telemedicine
Author: Marlene Maheu
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2002-02-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780787959036

E-Health, Telehealth, and Telemedicine is a hands-on resource that shows how communication technologies can be designed, implemented, and managed to help health care professionals expand and transform their organizations. Step by step the authors reveal how to introduce innovative communication tools to a wide range of health care settings. This indispensable book contains a wealth of information, suggestions, and advice about program development, ethical, legal and regulatory issues, and and technical options.

Managed Care Quality

Managed Care Quality
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1998
Genre: Medical
ISBN: