Health Informatics on FHIR: How HL7's API is Transforming Healthcare

This extensively revised textbook describes and defines the US healthcare delivery system, its many systemic challenges, and the prior efforts to develop and deploy informatics tools to help overcome these problems. It then turns to some of the important and evolving areas of informatics, including electronic health records, clinical decision support, population and public health, mHealth, and analytics, with numerous use cases and case studies to help readers connect the technologies to real-world challenges.

Format: Hardback
Length: 470 pages
Publication date: 11 February 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This extensively revised textbook provides a comprehensive description and definition of the US healthcare delivery system, encompassing its numerous systemic challenges and the prior efforts to develop and deploy informatics tools to address these issues. With the widespread adoption of electronic health record systems, the HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability standard has swiftly gained acceptance as the means to access and share the data stored within these systems. Moreover, the utilization of analytics is on the rise, enabling the extraction of valuable insights from the aggregated clinical data. This book proceeds to explore health informatics from a historical perspective, its current state, and potential future developments. It then delves into various emerging areas of informatics, such as electronic health records, clinical decision support, population and public health, mHealth, and analytics. Numerous use cases and case studies are incorporated throughout these discussions to facilitate a strong connection between the technologies and real-world healthcare challenges.

Health Informatics on FHIR: How HL7's API is Transforming Healthcare is designed for introductory health informatics courses for health sciences students, including doctors, nurses, and PhDs. It serves as a valuable resource for the current health informatics community, computer science and IT professionals seeking to gain knowledge about the field and apply it in healthcare settings. While this textbook focuses on a significant new technology, it is accessible to non-technical readers, including healthcare providers, their patients, and individuals interested in leveraging healthcare data for improved care, public/population health, or research.

Weight: 1054g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030915629
Edition number: 2nd ed. 2022