Susan M. Houston Lisa Anne Bove 2007 Project management is defined as “the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to activities to meet project requirements” (PMBOK 2000). Healthcare informatics staff are constantly involved with projects, whether as an analyst defining requirements for a system upgrade, a manager determining projected staffing patterns, a physician championing a new computerized physician order […]

Eta S. Berner Editor 2007 Theory and Practice When the first edition of Clinical Decision Support Systems was published in 1999, I began the preface with the statement, “We are at the beginning of a new era in the application of computer-based decision support for medicine.” Usually such statements in hindsight seem unduly optimistic, but if we look at […]

H.R.H. Patel, M. Arya, and I.S. Shergill (Eds) 2007 Medical researchers including doctors, nurses, medical students, and allied health professionals have traditionally undertaken a period of research as part of their career pathway. Research is poorly conceptualized by many and often never formally discussed during the training process.

Krzysztof Zielinski Mariusz Duplaga David Ingram Editors 2006 The 1998 UK Foresight Report described the field of Health Informatics thus: “Health Informatics examines the organisational, professional and technical issues involved in the use of information systems to support patient-centred healthcare delivery. It includes activities like clinical decision making, efficient information management, knowledge acquisition and dissemination, and informed patient participation.”

Charles P. Friedman Jeremy C.Wyatt 2006 This series is directed to healthcare professionals who are leading the transformation of health care by using information and knowledge. Launched in 1988 as Computers in Health Care, the series offers a broad range of titles: some addressed to specific professions such as nursing, medicine, and health administration; others to special areas of […]

Valerie Powell • Franklin M. Din Amit Acharya • Miguel Humberto Torres-Urquidy Editors 2012 Dentistry is medicine–oral medicine. The integration of the discipline of dentistry with the larger community of medicine, in education and in practice, is an imperative. The multi-faceted elements of health care reform, and specifically the mandate to create and implement a comprehensive health information […]

Morris F. Collen 2012 I was privileged to have witnessed the evolution of medical informatics in the United States during its first six decades. Donald A. B. Lindberg, Director of the National Library of Medicine, advised me that documenting this history would be a worthy project since during this period the country moved into a new information era, […]

Rachel L. Richesson • James E. Andrews Editors 2012