Healthcare Informatics : Improving Efficiency through Technology, Analytics, and Management

Healthcare Informatics: Improving Efficiency through Technology, Analytics, and Management supplies an understanding of the different types of healthcare service providers, corresponding information technologies, analytic methods, and data issues that play a vital role in transforming the healthcare industry. All of these elements are reshaping the various activities such as workflow and processes of hospitals, healthcare systems, ACOs, and patient analytics, including hot spotting, risk stratification, and treatment effectiveness.

A follow-up to Healthcare Informatics: Improving Efficiency and Productivity, this latest book includes new content that examines the evolution of Big Data and how it is revolutionizing the healthcare industry. It presents strategies for achieving national goals for the meaningful use of health information technology and includes sound project management principles and case illustrations for technology roll-out, such as Computer Physician Order Entry (CPOE) for optimal utilization.

The book describes how to enhance process efficiency by linking technologies, data, and analytics with strategic initiatives to achieve success. It explains how to leverage data resources with analytics to enhance decision support for care providers through in-depth descriptions of the array of analytic methods that are used to create actionable information, including Business Intelligence, Six Sigma, Data, and Text Mining.

• Provides strategies for achieving national goals for the meaningful use of health information technology
• Illustrates how informatics can be leveraged to manage outcomes
• Explains how to enhance process efficiency by linking technologies, data, and analytics with strategic initiatives to achieve success
• Demonstrates how to leverage data resources with analytics to enhance decision support for care providers
• Describes how to design Computer Physician Order Entry (CPOE) for optimal utilization

Foreword
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Contributors

Chapter 1 : An Introduction to the US Health Care Industry, Information Technology, and Informatics
Chapter 2 : Electronic Health Information, Healthcare System Interoperability, Mobile Health, and the Formation of a Community of Health and Wellness
Chapter 3 :  Quality Time in Healthcare : Meaningful Use of Health Information Technology and the Journey to Paying for Value
Chapter 4 : A Project Management Framework for Healthcare Informatics Initiatives
Chapter 5 : Nursing Roles in the Implementation of Clinical Information Systems
Chapter 6 : Architecting Transitions to a Fully Electronic Medical Record with Emphasis on Physician Adoption and Optimal Utilization
Chapter 7 : Knowledge Translation and Informatics in Healthcare
Chapter 8 : An Application of Healthcare Informatics to Improving Patient Safety and Outcomes : Learning from the Experiences of Trinity Health
Chapter 9 : The New Medical Frontier : Real-Time Wireless Medical Data Acquisition for the 21st Century Healthcare and Data Mining Challenges
Chapter 10 : The World of Health Analytics
Chapter 11 : Information Creation through Analytics  : A Focus on Healthcare
Chapter 12 : Enhancing Data Resources and Business Intelligence in Healthcare
Chapter 13 : Taking Action for Health Plan Members’ Health : An Argument for an Expert System’s Approach to Optimizing Care Management Utilization and Financial Outcomes  
Chapter 14 : An Introduction to Data and Text Mining in Healthcare : A Focus on Building Alerting Systems for Decision Support
Chapter 15 : Data Mining Applications in Healthcare

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