Tables, Figures, and Exhibits xi
Foreword xv
Preface xix
Acknowledgments xxxi
The Authors xxxiii
Part 1 Health Care Information 1
1 Introduction to Health Care Information 3
Learning Objectives
Types of Health Care Information
Internal Data and Information: Patient Specific—Clinical
Internal Data and Information: Patient Specific—Administrative
Internal Data and Information: Patient Specific—Combining Clinical and Administrative
Internal Data and Information: Aggregate—Clinical
Internal Data and Information: Aggregate—Administrative
Internal Data and Information: Aggregate—Combining Clinical and Administrative
External Data and Information: Comparative
External Data and Information: Expert or Knowledge Based
Summary
Key Terms
Learning Activities
2 Health Care Data Quality 49
Learning Objectives
Data versus Information
Problems with Poor-Quality Data
Ensuring Data and Information Quality
Summary
Key Terms
Learning Activities
This is an informative and well organized book that helped me tremendously in preparing for the Clinical Informatics board exam. The book covers all the bases at just the right depth. The writing style is clear and concise. I highly recommended it!
Tom Scaletta MD
President, Smart-ER.net
By Tom Scaletta
I use this book in an introductory health informatics course. Covers exactly what I needed, including HITECH. The activities at the end if each chapter as well as the short cases at the end are very useful for discussion.
By M. Tremblay