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Information Technology for the Health Professions (3rd Edition)
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by Lillian Burke and Barbara Weill
Sales Rank: 47816
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List Price: $46.00
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Paperback: 360 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 3 edition May 2, 2008
Language: English
ISBN-10: 013159933X
ISBN-13: 978-0131599338
Product Dimensions:
8.9 x 6.9 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
Product Description
Information Technology for the Health Professions 3/e, examines the impact of information technology on a wide variety of health care fields. These include telemedicine, radiology, pharmacy, dentistry, surgery, rehabilitative therapies, and public health. The book includes the latest information on medical informatics, informational resources, and electronic record keeping in the Health Information Technology decade. The issues raised by global warming and by the possibilities of new pandemics make the addition of the chapter on information technology in public health particularly timely. Our approach provides students with an accessible presentation of the most current computer and medical technologies. The updated chapter on privacy and security includes new information including the Real ID Act of 2005—a law requiring every American to have an electronic ID card.
Back Cover Copy
This comprehensive survey of the interconnections of IT and health care is the only up-to-date book that teaches computer literacy AND introduces readers to the uses of information technology in health care and its delivery. Familiarizes readers with the basic vocabulary and concepts necessary to computer literacyincluding discussions of hardware and software, communications and networking, and ethical issues and privacy concerns introduced by the pervasiveness of computers in society. In addition, it discusses how IT is transforming every aspect of health care and its deliveryfrom administrative applications (such as the electronic medical record), to clinical systems involved in direct patient care, to special- purpose applications (such as simulation software used in the education of health care professionals). Section I provides a general introduction to computer literacy and information technology at a level appropriate for health care students. Section II examines the impact of Information Technology on health care specifically in the fields of radiology, telemedicine, surgery, medical devices, pharmacy, and informational resources.
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