Handbook of Health/Nursing Informatics and Technology, 1st Edition

UNIT I Introduction to computer applications for patient care delivery system and nursing practice
1 Introduction to computers
2 Windows operating system, microsoft word, excel and powerpoint
3 Internet
4 Literature search
5 Statistical packages
6 Hospital information management system

UNIT II Principles of health informatics
7 Health informatics—needs, objectives and limitations
8 Use of data, information and knowledge for more effective healthcare and better health
UNIT III Information systems in healthcare
9 Introduction to the role and architecture of information systems in modern healthcare
environments
10 Clinical information system
UNIT IV Shared care and electronic health records
11 Challenges of capturing rich patient histories in a computable form
12 Latest global developments and standards to enable lifelong electronic health records to be integrated from disparate system
UNIT IV Patient safety and clinical risk
13 Relationship between patient safety and informatics
14 Function and application of risk management process
UNIT V Clinical knowledge and decision making
15 Clinical knowledge management and decision making
16 Systematized nomenclature of medicine and standardized nursing terminologies
UNIT VII E-health: patients and the internet
17 Use of information and communication technology to improve or enable personal and public healthcare
18 Public health informatics
UNIT VIII Using information in healthcare management
19 Components of nursing information system (NIS)
20 Evaluation, analysis and presentation of healthcare data
UNIT IX Information laws and governance in clinical practice
21 Ethical-legal issues pertaining to healthcare information in contemporary clinical practice
22 Ethical-legal issues related to digital health applied to nursing
UNIT X Healthcare quality and evidence-based practice
23 Use of scientifi c evidence in improving the quality of healthcare and technical and professional
informatics standards
Annexure—I: Short cut keys
Annexure—II: Flowcharts
Annexure—III: Practical usage of hospital information system or health information system

Prakash Palanivelu