Information Technology for the Health Professions (4th Edition)

Now significantly expanded and fully updated IN FORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS 4/e 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.