Introduction to Computers for Healthcare Professionals

Introduction to Computers for Healthcare Professionals
Author: Irene Makar Joos
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Total Pages: 638
Release: 2010-10-25
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1449610641

Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition. An introductory computer literacy text for nurses and other healthcare students, Introduction to Computers for Healthcare Professionals explains hardware, popular software programs, operating systems, and computer assisted communication. The Fifth Edition of this best-selling text has been revised and now includes content on on online storage, communication and online learning including info on PDA's, iPhones, IM, and other media formats, and another chapter on distance learning including video conferencing and streaming video.

The Computer-Based Patient Record

The Computer-Based Patient Record
Author: Committee on Improving the Patient Record
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 1997-10-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 030957885X

Most industries have plunged into data automation, but health care organizations have lagged in moving patients' medical records from paper to computers. In its first edition, this book presented a blueprint for introducing the computer-based patient record (CPR). The revised edition adds new information to the original book. One section describes recent developments, including the creation of a computer-based patient record institute. An international chapter highlights what is new in this still-emerging technology. An expert committee explores the potential of machine-readable CPRs to improve diagnostic and care decisions, provide a database for policymaking, and much more, addressing these key questions: Who uses patient records? What technology is available and what further research is necessary to meet users' needs? What should government, medical organizations, and others do to make the transition to CPRs? The volume also explores such issues as privacy and confidentiality, costs, the need for training, legal barriers to CPRs, and other key topics.

Biomedical Informatics

Biomedical Informatics
Author: Edward H. Shortliffe
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 970
Release: 2013-12-02
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1447144740

The practice of modern medicine and biomedical research requires sophisticated information technologies with which to manage patient information, plan diagnostic procedures, interpret laboratory results, and carry out investigations. Biomedical Informatics provides both a conceptual framework and a practical inspiration for this swiftly emerging scientific discipline at the intersection of computer science, decision science, information science, cognitive science, and biomedicine. Now revised and in its third edition, this text meets the growing demand by practitioners, researchers, and students for a comprehensive introduction to key topics in the field. Authored by leaders in medical informatics and extensively tested in their courses, the chapters in this volume constitute an effective textbook for students of medical informatics and its areas of application. The book is also a useful reference work for individual readers needing to understand the role that computers can play in the provision of clinical services and the pursuit of biological questions. The volume is organized so as first to explain basic concepts and then to illustrate them with specific systems and technologies.

Use and Impact of Computers in Clinical Medicine

Use and Impact of Computers in Clinical Medicine
Author: James G. Anderson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1461386748

Computer technology has impacted the practice of medicine in dramatic ways. Imaging techniques provide noninvasive tools which alter the diag nostic process. Sophisticated monitoring equipment presents new levels of detail for both patient management and research. In most of these high technology applications, the computer is embedded in the device; its presence is transparent to the user. There is also a growing number of applications in which the health care provider directly interacts with a computer. In many cases, these applica tions are limited to administrative functions, e.g., office practice manage ment, location of hospital patients, appointments, and scheduling. Nev ertheless, there also are instances of patient care functions such as results reporting, decision support, surveillance, and reminders. This series, Computers and Medicine, focuses upon the direct use of information systems as it relates to the medical community. After twenty five years of experimentation and experience, there are many tested ap plications which can be implemented economically using the current gen eration of computers. Moreover, the falling cost of computers suggests that there will be even more extensive use in the near future. Yet there is a gap between current practice and the state-of-the-art.

Computers in Health Care

Computers in Health Care
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology
Publisher:
Total Pages: 42
Release: 1979
Genre: Information storage and retrieval systems
ISBN:

Medical Informatics

Medical Informatics
Author: Edward H. Shortliffe
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 880
Release: 2013-11-11
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0387217215

The practice of modern medicine requires sophisticated information technologies with which to manage patient information, plan diagnostic procedures, interpret laboratory results, and conduct research. Designed for a broad audience, this book fills the need for a high quality reference in computers and medicine, first explaining basic concepts, then illustrating them with specific systems and technologies. Medical Informatics provides both a conceptual framework and a practical inspiration for this swiftly emerging scientific discipline. The second edition covers system design and engineering, ethics of health informatics, system evaluation and technology assessment, public health and consumer use of health information, and healthcare financing.

Introduction to Computers for Healthcare Professionals

Introduction to Computers for Healthcare Professionals
Author: Irene Joos
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 571
Release: 2019-12-06
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1284194701

Introduction to Computers for Health Care Professionals, Seventh Edition is a contemporary computer literacy text geared toward nurses and other healthcare students.

Computational Technology for Effective Health Care

Computational Technology for Effective Health Care
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2009-02-24
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0309155843

Despite a strong commitment to delivering quality health care, persistent problems involving medical errors and ineffective treatment continue to plague the industry. Many of these problems are the consequence of poor information and technology (IT) capabilities, and most importantly, the lack cognitive IT support. Clinicians spend a great deal of time sifting through large amounts of raw data, when, ideally, IT systems would place raw data into context with current medical knowledge to provide clinicians with computer models that depict the health status of the patient. Computational Technology for Effective Health Care advocates re-balancing the portfolio of investments in health care IT to place a greater emphasis on providing cognitive support for health care providers, patients, and family caregivers; observing proven principles for success in designing and implementing IT; and accelerating research related to health care in the computer and social sciences and in health/biomedical informatics. Health care professionals, patient safety advocates, as well as IT specialists and engineers, will find this book a useful tool in preparation for crossing the health care IT chasm.

Health Care Information Technology -the Hardware and Software Focus

Health Care Information Technology -the Hardware and Software Focus
Author: Amelia Butler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2011-08-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780615447766

Health Care Information Technology is an exciting and valuable new field, it is important to understand the requirements necessary to ensure that the software and hardware used within the industry support the goals of hospitals and small providers around the nation. Today, legislation such as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, and the HITECH Act continue to add additional requirements to medical IT systems. This book is intended to accomplish all of the following goals: Clear up essential misunderstandings related to terminology Show readers the extent of the problems that affect the field today Summarize key legislation that affects the industry Provide readers with a pathway to entering Health Care IT Introduce the Health Care Information Technology Service Center Give readers a handy guide of industry definitions Amelia Butler is a writer and educator on software and hardware computer technology issues. Currently enrolled in a graduate program at Washington State University, she holds a bachelor's degree in Information Technology and is a Microsoft-certified trainer. She has been working, teaching and training in the healthcare, Information technology, health information management, and health care information technology field since 1992. She is a current member of associations such as AHIMA and Healthcare Information Technology.