Supplying 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, this book 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. -- Edited summary from book.

Chapter 1. An introduction to the U.S. healthcare industry, information technology, and informatics / Stephan P. Kudyba and Richard Temple -- chapter 2. Electronic health information, healthcare system interoperability, mobile health, and the formation of a community of health and wellness / Stephan P. Kudyba, Thad Perry, and Deborah Ballou -- chapter 3. Quality time in healthcare : meaningful use of health information technology and the journey to paying for value / Michael H. Zaroukian and Peter Basch -- chapter 4. A project management framework of healthcare informatics initiatives / Christi Rushnell and Mary Beattie -- chapter 5. Nursing roles in the implementation of clinical information systems / Terry Moore -- chapter 6. Architecting transitions to a fully electronic medical record with emphasis on physician adoption and optimal utilization / James F. Keel, III and D. Arlo Jennings -- chapter 7. Knowledge translation and informatics in healthcare / Ann McKibbon -- chapter 8. Applicacation of healthcare informatics to improving patient safafety and outcomes : learning from the experiences of Trinity Health / Rajiv Kohli, Frank Piontek, Larry Sellers, Tom Miner, and Paul Conlon -- chapter 9. The new medical frontier : real-time wireless medical data acquisition for 21st-century healthcare and data mining challenges / David Lubliner and Stephan P. Kudyba -- chapter 10. The world of health analytics / Jason Burke -- chapter 11. Information creation through analytics : a healthcare focus / Stephan P. Kudyba -- chapter 12. Enhancing data resources and business intelligence in healthcacare / Stephan P. Kudyba and Mark Rader -- chapter 13. Taking action for health plan members' health : an argument for an expert system's approacach to optimizing care management utilization and financial outcomes / Stephan P. Kudyba, Thad Perry, and John Azzolini -- chapter 14. An introduction to data and text mining in healthcare : a focus on building alerting systems for decision support / Billie Anderson, Cali M. Davis, and J. Michael Hardin -- chapter 15. Data mining in healthcare / Wullianallur Raghupathi.