About the Seventh Edition

Outline of Book (Chapters)

  1. Introduction to Biomedical and Health Informatics . . . . . . . . . . 1
  2. A Short History of Biomedical and Health Informatics 19
  3. Computing Concepts for Biomedicine and Health . . . . . . . . . . .27
  4. Electronic Health Records 51
  5. Standards and Interoperability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
  6. Data Science and Artificial Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
  7. Clinical Decision Support 117
  8. Natural Language Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131
  9. Safety, Quality, and Value 159
  10. Health Information Exchange (HIE) 195
  11. EHR System Selection and Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . .211
  12. Telemedicine and Telehealth 223
  13. Health Information Privacy and Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .233
  14. Information Retrieval (Search) 253
  15. Clinical Research Informatics 283
  16. Translational Bioinformatics 299
  17. Nursing Informatics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .315
  18. Consumer Health Informatics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .335
  19. Public Health Informatics 357
  20. Evidence-Based Medicine 377
  21. Imaging Informatics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .399
  22. Ethical Issues in Health Informatics 411
  23. Human-Computer Interaction 431
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