See how information technology intersects with health care! Health Informatics: An Interprofessional Approach, 2nd Edition prepares you for success in today’s technology-filled healthcare practice. Concise coverage includes information systems and applications such as electronic health records, clinical decision support, telehealth, ePatients, and social media tools, as well as system implementation. New to this edition are topics including data science and analytics, mHealth, principles of project management, and contract negotiations. Written by expert informatics educators Ramona Nelson and Nancy Staggers, this edition enhances the book that won a 2013 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year award!

An introduction to health informatics -- Theoretical foundations of health informatics -- Evidence-based practice, practice-based evidence, and health informatics -- Models, theories, and research for program evaluation -- Technical infrastructure to support healthcare -- Electronic health records and applications for managing patient care -- Administrative applications supporting healthcare delivery -- Telehealth and applications for delivering care at a distance -- Home health and related community-based systems -- Clinical decision support systems in healthcare -- Public health informatics -- The engaged ePatient -- Social media tools for practice and education -- Personal health records -- mHealth: the intersection of mobile technology and health -- Strategic planning and selecting an information system -- Project management principles for health informatics -- Contract negotiations and software licensing -- Implementing and upgrading an information system -- Downtime and disaster recovery for health information systems -- Improving the user experience for health information technology -- Informatics-related standards and standards-setting organizations -- Data science and analytics in healthcare -- Patient safety and quality initiatives in informatics -- Legal issues, federal regulations and accreditation -- Privacy and security -- Health \information technology for education and clinical health act, meaningful use, and Medicare access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 -- Health policy and health informatics -- Health information technology governance -- Informatics in the curriculum for healthcare professionals -- Distance education : applications, techniques and issues -- Informatics tools for educating health professionals -- Simulation in healthcare education -- International efforts, issues, and innovations -- The evolution of health informatics -- Future directions and future research in health informatics.