3rd Edition

Medical Informatics An Executive Primer, Third Edition

By Kenneth R. Ong Copyright 2015
382 Pages
by HIMSS Publishing

382 Pages
by HIMSS Publishing

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 provide high-value patient care. Developed for... Read more

Value of Health IT: HIMSS Health Information Technology Value Model
Patricia B. Wise

Personal Health Engagement

Jan Oldenburg

Fostering Innovation in Health IT

Anuj Desai and David Jacobowitz

mHealth: Transforming the Delivery of Healthcare

Geeta Nayyar

Patient-Centered Medical Home

Salvatore Volpe

Meaningful Use: Increasing EHR Adoption and Paving the Path Toward Healthcare Transformation

Anantachai (Tony) Panjamapirom and Naomi Levinthal

Regional Extension Centers

Paul Kleeberg and Ryan Sandefer

Ambulatory Systems

Curtis L. Cole, Adam D. Cheriff, J. Travis Gossey, Sameer Malhotra, and Daniel M. Stein

Hospital Systems: History and Rationale for Hospital Health IT

Virginia Lorenzi

Improving Usability through the User-Centered Design Process

Janey Barnes and Robert Schumacher

Clinical Decision Support

Ken Ong

E-Measures

Erika Abramson and Rainu Kaushal

Clinical and Business Intelligence

Ray Hess

Nursing Informatics Today and Future Perspectives for Healthcare

Dana Alexander and Sarah Collins

Health Information Exchange

Gilad J. Kuperman and Jason Shapiro

Privacy and Security

Keith Weiner

Software Selection

Ken Ong

Project Management and Health IT
Pete Shelkin

Why Do Projects Fail?

Ken Ong

Case Study: Reaching Out with Technology—Telehealth in Rural America

Mary Ann Zelazn

Case Study: Children’s Medical Center Dallas

Patient Engagement

Case Study: White River Family Practice

Population Management

Case Study: Texas Health Resources

Clinical and Business Intelligence

Case Study: UC Davis Health System

Health Information Exchange

Case Study: Mount Sinai Medical Center
How the Preventable Admission Care Team (PACT) Used IT to Expand Program

Appendix: Acronyms Used in This Book

Biography

Kenneth R. Ong