Series: HIMSS Book Series

Analytics in Healthcare: An Introduction provides a clear, straightforward roadmap to achieving your goals within the domain of healthcare analytics. Whether you are a student looking for a career path or a staff member within a healthcare organisation needing to apply the value that your institution’s data can provide, this manual will give you direction. Building on chapters that describe...

Applying Social Media Technologies in Healthcare Environments provides an indispensable overview of successful use of the latest innovations in the healthcare provider-patient relationship. As professionals realise that success in the business of healthcare requires incorporation of the tools of social media into all aspects of their worlds and recognise the value offered by the numerous media channels, this compendium of...

Within a healthcare enterprise, patient vital signs and other automated measurements are communicated from connected medical devices to end-point systems, such as electronic health records, data warehouses, and standalone clinical information systems. Connected Medical Devices: Integrating Patient Care Data in Healthcare Systems explores how medical device integration (MDI) supports quality patient care and better clinical outcomes by reducing clinical documentation...

In his highly regarded blog, Life as a Healthcare CIO, John Halamka records his experiences with health IT leadership, infrastructure, applications, policies, management, governance, and standardisation of data. But he also muses on topics such as reducing our carbon footprint, sustainable farming, mountain climbing, being a husband, father, and son, and living life to its fullest. During his remarkable career,...

John Glaser has been an astute observer and recognised leader in the health care industry for over thirty years. He has written a regular column for Hospitals & Health Networks in which he comments on a wide range of topics, including improving organisational performance through health information technology (HIT), changes in HIT architecture, challenges in leveraging data, and the evolution...

Implementing Information Security in Healthcare: Building a Security Program offers a critical and comprehensive look at healthcare security concerns in an era of powerful computer technology, increased mobility, and complex regulations designed to protect personal information. Featuring perspectives from more than two dozen security experts, the book explores the tools and policies healthcare organisations need to build an effective and...

Like other critical organisational assets, information is a strategic asset that requires a high level of oversight to effectively use it for organisational decision-making, performance improvement, cost management, and risk mitigation. Adopting an information governance program shows a healthcare organisation’s commitment to managing its information as a valued strategic asset. Information governance serves the dual purpose of optimising the ability...

Introduction to Healthcare Information is a concise, reader-friendly, introductory healthcare management book that covers a wide variety of healthcare settings, from hospitals to nursing homes and clinics. Filled with examples to engage the reader's imagination, the important issues in healthcare management, such as ethics, cost management, strategic planning and marketing, information technology, and human resources, are all thoroughly covered. Guidelines...

The healthcare industry is in a state of accelerated transition. The proliferation of data and its assimilation, access, use, and security are ever-increasing challenges. Finding ways to operationalise business and clinical data management in the face of government and market mandates is enough to keep most chief officers up at night! Leveraging Data in Healthcare: Best Practices for Controlling, Analyzing,...

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 healthcare executives, the book looks at how...

This book is written through the lens of patients, caregivers, healthcare representatives, and families, highlighting new models of interaction between providers and patients and what people would like in their healthcare experience. It envisions a new kind of healthcare system with recommendations on how and why providers must connect to patients and families using Health Information Technology (HIT). It also...