About the Seventh Edition
The seventh edition comprises many of the chapters included in the sixth edition and the supplement with new content in each chapter and multiple new authors. We are honored to have William R. Hersh MD from Oregon Health & Science University as co-editor of this edition and main editor of all future editions. Importantly, he is the main contributor to multiple chapters. We will continue the same overall chapter framework. Chapters will begin with learning objectives, followed by an introduction and history of the subject and conclude with challenges/barriers, resources, recommended reading, future trends, key points, conclusions and references. In the seventh edition, we focused on post-HITECH Act changes in Health Informatics and other interesting developments in the field that have occurred since we published the sixth edition four years ago.
Several new authors have been added to the existing authors. The chapter on electronic health records was co-authored by Dr. Vishnu Mohan from the Oregon Health & Science University. Brian Dixon from Regenstrief Institute authored the chapter on public health informatics. Tom Martin from Temple University co-authored the chapter on telemedicine. John Rasmussen is the new author of the Privacy and Security chapter and Harry Burke is the new author of the chapter on patient safety, quality and value.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Overview of Health Informatics
Chapter 2 Healthcare Data, Information and Knowledge
Chapter 3 Computer and Network Architectures
Chapter 4 Electronic Health Records
Chapter 5 Standards and Interoperability
Chapter 6 Health Information Exchange
Chapter 7 Healthcare Data Analytics
Chapter 8 Clinical Decision Support
Chapter 9 Safety, Quality and Value
Chapter 10 Health Information Privacy and Security
Chapter 11 Health Informatics Ethics
Chapter 12 Consumer Health Informatics
Chapter 13 Mobile Technology and mHealth
Chapter 14 Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Practice Guidelines
Chapter 15 Information Retrieval and Medical Knowledge Resources
Chapter 16 Medical Imaging Informatics
Chapter 17 Telemedicine
Chapter 18 Bioinformatics
Chapter 19 Public Health Informatics
Chapter 20 E-Research
Chapter 21 International Health Informatics
Chapter 22 Introduction to Data Science
Textbook Authors
Elmer V. Bernstam MD, MSE
Associate Dean for Research
Reynolds and Reynolds Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Professor of Internal Medicine
The University of Texas Health Science Center
Houston, TX
Harry B. Burke MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Chief of Section of Safety, Quality and Value'
Biomedical Informatics
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Bethesda, MD
Trevor Cohen MD, MBChB, PhD
Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics
School of Biomedical Informatics
The University of Texas Health Science Center
Houston, TX
Brian Dixon MPA, PhD, FHIMSS
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, IU
Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
Research Scientist, Center for Biomedical Informatics
Regenstrief Institute, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
Alison Fields BS MPH
College of Health
University of West Florida
Pensacola, FL
M. Chris Gibbons MD, MPH
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Greystone Group, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
John Grizzard MD,
Associate Professor, Radiology
Director, Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Imaging
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
William Hersh MD, FACP, FACMI
Professor and Chair, Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology
School of Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR
Robert Hoyt MD FACP
Diplomate, Clinical Informatics
Informatics Education.org
Pensacola, FL
Todd Johnson PhD
Professor, School of Biomedical Informatics
University of Texas Health Science Center
Houston, TX
Harold Lehmann MD, PhD
Director, Division of Health Sciences Informatics
Professor of Health Sciences Informatics
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Steve Magare MSC
Research Officer, Health Informatics
KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Programme
Nairobi, Kenya
Sarita Mantravadi PhD, MS, MPH, CPH, CHES
Pearland, TX
Gleber Nelson Marques PhD, MS
Adjunct Professor of Computational Science
College of Health Sciences and Medicine
Mato Grasso State University
Mato Grasso, Brazil
Thomas Martin PhD
Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director
College of Public Health
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA
Ken Masters PhD
Assistant Professor of Medical Informatics
Medical Education Unit
College of Medicine & Health Sciences
Sultan Qaboos University
Sultanate of Oman
Vishnu Mohan MD, MBI, MBCS, FACP
Associate Professor of Medical Informatics, General Internal Medicine and Management
Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology
Program Director, Clinical Informatics Fellowship
School of Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR
Naomi Muinga MSC
Research Officer, Health Informatics
KENMRI - Wellcome Trust Programme
Nairobi, Kenya
Chris Paton BMBS, BMEDSI BMA, FACHI
Group Head for Global Health Informatics
Centre for Tropical Medicine
University of Oxford
Oxford England
Saurabh Rahurkar BDS, DRPH
Public Health Informatics Post-doctoral Fellow
Center for Biomedical Informatics
Regenstrief University
Indianapolis, IN
John Rasmussen MBA
Chief Information Security Officer
MedStar Health
Columbia, MD
Indra Neil Sarkar, PhD, MLIS, FACMI
Associate Professor of Medical Science
Center for Biomedical Informatics
Brown University
Providence, RI
Yahya Shaihk MD, MPH
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Greystone Group, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
John Sharp MSSA, PMP, FHIMSS
Director, Personal Connected Health Alliance
HIMSS Innovation Center
Cleveland, OH
Adjunct Faculty, Health Informatics
Kent State University
Kent, OH
Dallas Snider PhD
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering
University of West Florida
Pensacola, FL