Main description:

This new edition of the classic textbook provides bold and honest descriptions of the current and evolving state of US healthcare information technology. Emerging technologies and novel practice and business models are changing the delivery and management of healthcare, as innovation and adoption meet new needs and challenges, such as those posed by the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Many facets of these are presented in this volume:

* The increasing mutual impact of information technology and healthcare with respect to costs, workforce training and leadership

* The changing state of healthcare IT privacy, security, interoperability and data sharing through health information exchange

* The rise and growing importance of telehealth/telemedicine in the era of COVID-19* Innovations and trends in the development and deployment of health IT in public health, disease modeling and tracking, and clinical/population health research

* Current work in health IT as it is used in patient safety, chronic disease management, critical care, rehabilitation/long-term/home-based patient care and care coordination

* "Brave new world" visions of healthcare and health IT, with forward- looking considerations of the impact of artificial intelligence, machine learning on healthcare equity and policy

Building on the success of previous editions, this 5th edition of Healthcare Information Management Systems: Cases, Strategies, and Solutions provides healthcare professionals insights to new frontiers and to the directions being taken in the technical, organizational, business and management aspects of information technology in the ongoing quest to optimize healthcare quality and cost, and to improve universal health at all levels.

Contents:

Clinical Decision Support - History and Basic Concepts.- Electronic Health Record Features, Functions, and Privileges that Clinicians Need to Provide Safe and Effective Care for Adults and Children.- The Journey To Usablity: A Vendor's Perspective.- Snapshot at mid-stride: Current state of EHRs and their use by clinicians from a CMIO's perspective.- The Evolution of EHR-S Functionality for Care and Coordination.- Great Promises of Healthcare Information Technology Deliver Less.- Ten Reasons Why Interoperability is Difficult.- The Evolution of Health Information Technology Policy in the United States.- Usability: Making it Real from Concepts to Implementation and End-User Adoption.- Incorporating Patient Generated Health Data into Chronic Disease Management: A Human Factors Approach.- Transformed Roles for a Transformed Healthcare System: Where Do Clinical Informaticists Fit in Now?.- Emerging Roles in Health and Healthcare.- Impact of the Digital Age on Transforming Healthcare.- Health Information Crossroad: An opportunity to deliver real measurable outcomes for better health and well being.- Health IT's Essential Role in the Patient-Centered Medical Home and Practice-Based Population Health Management.- Patient-Interactive Healthcare Management, a Model for Achieving Patient Experience Excellence.- The Patient of the Future: Participatory Medicine & Enabling Technologies.- Data Driven Patient Safety and Clinical Information Technology.- Simulation: A View Into The Future Of Education.- The Health Record Banking Model for Health Information Infrastructure.- Next Generation Wellness: A Technology Model for Personalizing Healthcare.- Wearable Technologies and Telehealth in Care Management for Chronic Illness.- The Role of Big Data and Analytics in Health Payer Transformation to Consumer-Centricity.- Interoperability: E Pluribus Unum.- Privacy & Data Security: HIPAA & HITECH.- Building a Reliable and Affordable System of Medical Care.- Engineering the Next Generation of Health Systems.- Emerging Clinical Decision Support Technology for the 21st Century.- Beyond Current HIMS: Future Visions and a Roadmap.- Big Data Analytical Technologies and Decision Support in Critical Care.- Data Driven Analytics for Personalized Healthcare.- Cognitive Computing for Electronic Medical Records.- Health Information Systems 2025.