Health Informatics: A Socio-Technical Perspective

About the Book

Health informatics is a multi-disciplinary, multi-dimensional field which seeks to facilitate the effective collection, management and use of information in the health care environment. Taking a socio-technical perspective, Health Informatics focuses on the interplay between the health care environment and the systems used to manage that environment. Highly practical in orientation, the book uses many and various examples of the different issues, priorities and approaches to using health information technology to assist students to identify and critique these differing perspectives.

Readership: Undergraduate and postgraduate students of public health and nursing, undertaking specialist degrees in health information systems, 'E-health' or health administration

Table of Contents

Part 1: Foundations of health informatics
1: The health care environment and health informatics
2: What is health informatics?
3: Building the knowledge base
Part 2: Health informatics tools, techniques and applications
4: Tools: promises and pitfalls
5: Doing databases
6: Health information systems
7: E-health
8: Electronic health records
9: Decision support systems
Part 3: Health informatics in action
10: Health informatics in action: rural and remote health