Now significantly expanded and fully updated, this is the ideal information technology primer for readers working in any healthcare field, including allied health, nursing, medical/dental/pharmaceutical assisting, or medical administration. It fully addresses each key issue in contemporary healthcare IT, including the accelerating migration towards electronic health records. New coverage includes: smartphones, tablets, and their healthcare applications; the role of healthcare reform in promoting health IT; EHR meaningful use criteria; new practice management scheduling software; the growth of telemedicine; new problems in public health; interventional radiology; surgery-related nanotechnology; information-related biotech and pharmaceutical trends; expanded applications in psychiatry and rehabilitation; genetic privacy; and much more.

Introduction to Information Technology-Hardware, Software, and Telecommunications -- Medical Informatics: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, HITECH, and The Health Information Technology Decade -- An Introduction to the Administrative Applications of Computers: Practice Management: Scheduling and Accounting -- Telemedicine -- Information Technology in Public Health -- Information Technology in Radiology -- Information Technology in Surgery-the Cutting Edge -- Information Technology in Pharmacy -- Information Technology in Dentistry -- Informational Resources: Computer-Assisted Instruction, Expert Systems, Health Information Online -- Information Technology in Rehabilitative Therapies: Computerized Medical Devices, Assistive Technology, and Prosthetic Devices -- Security and Privacy in an Electronic Age.