HIMSS Book Series
About the Book Series
HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) is a global, cause-based, not-for-profit organization focused on better health through information technology (IT). HIMSS leads efforts to optimize health engagements and care outcomes using information technology. HIMSS is a cause-based, global enterprise producing health IT thought leadership, education, events, market research and media services around the world. Founded in 1961, HIMSS encompasses more than 52,000 individuals, of which more than two-thirds work in healthcare provider, governmental and not-for-profit organizations across the globe, plus over 600 corporations and 250 not-for-profit partner organizations, that share this cause.
Mastering Physician Engagement: A Practical Guide to Achieving Shared Outcomes
1st Edition
By John W. Showalter, Leigh T. Williams
September 30, 2021
Twenty-first century healthcare will be defined by better care, smarter spending, and healthier people. All eyes are on technology as the means to drive down costs and improve efficiency, enabling physicians to deliver care in a way that realizes the vision of a healthier planet. The transition ...
Voice Technology in Healthcare: Leveraging Voice to Enhance Patient and Provider Experiences
1st Edition
By David Metcalf, Teri Fisher, Sandhya Pruthi, Harry P. Pappas
September 30, 2021
The healthcare industry is on the cutting edge of voice-user interface (VUI) design and making great progress to improve patient care through developing technologies, literally transforming the voice of the industry. The advantages of VUI extend far beyond simple conveniences for patients or a ...
Information Technology and Data in Healthcare: Using and Understanding Data
1st Edition
By David Hartzband
August 02, 2021
Healthcare transformation requires us to continually look at new and better ways to manage insights – both within and outside the organization. Increasingly, the ability to glean and operationalize new insights efficiently as a byproduct of an organization’s day-to-day operations is becoming vital ...
Reinventing Clinical Decision Support: Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and Diagnostic Reasoning
1st Edition
By Paul Cerrato, John Halamka
August 02, 2021
This book takes an in-depth look at the emerging technologies that are transforming the way clinicians manage patients, while at the same time emphasizing that the best practitioners use both artificial and human intelligence to make decisions. AI and machine learning are explored at length, with ...
An Introduction to Health Information Technology in LTPAC Settings
1st Edition
By PhD Alexander, RPh John, MS Pettit
June 30, 2021
A multiplicity of factors converging together suggest the long term/post-acute care (LTPAC) provider community (e.g. nursing homes, behavioral health facilities, home health agencies, etc.) will accelerate in importance within the healthcare ecosystem during the next few years. The challenge for ...
Blockchain in Healthcare: Innovations that Empower Patients, Connect Professionals and Improve Care
1st Edition
By Vikram Dhillon, John Bass, Max Hooper, David Metcalf, Alex Cahana
June 30, 2021
Blockchain technology is poised to revolutionize more than just payment and crypto-currency. Many vertical industries will be reshaped by the new trusted data models enabled and inspired by the blockchain – healthcare is no exception. In fact, healthcare may hold the greatest opportunities for ...
HIT or Miss, 3rd Edition: Lessons Learned from Health Information Technology Projects
3rd Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Leviss
June 30, 2021
This third edition presents and dissects a wide variety of HIT failures so that the reader can understand in each case what went wrong and why and how to avoid such problems, without focusing on the involvement of specific people, organizations, or vendors. The lessons may be applied to future and ...
Information Governance for Healthcare Professionals: A Practical Approach
1st Edition
By Robert F. Smallwood
June 30, 2021
Like other critical organizational assets, information is a strategic asset that requires high level of oversight in order to be able to effectively use it for organizational decision-making, performance improvement, cost management, and risk mitigation.Adopting an information governance program ...
Information Privacy in the Evolving Healthcare Environment
2nd Edition
By Linda Koontz
June 30, 2021
Advances in health information technology (health IT) have the potential to improve the quality of healthcare, to increase the availability of health information for treatment, and to implement safeguards that cannot be applied easily or cost-effectively to paper-based health records. However, the ...
Leading Healthcare IT: Managing to Succeed
1st Edition
By Susan T. Snedaker
June 30, 2021
Healthcare IT is a complex and rapidly evolving field. Success in this arena requires the ability to create a vision, set a strategy, foster collaboration, develop a plan and execute flawlessly every day. This book provides a clear, concise roadmap for professionals who currently manage, direct or ...
The CMIO Survival Guide: A Handbook for Chief Medical Information Officers and Those Who Hire Them, Second Edition
2nd Edition
By MBA Rydell, MD Landa
June 30, 2021
The CMIO Survival Guide is the handbook for the new Chief Medical Information Officer, as well as for those recruiting or planning to recruit a CMIO. This quick reference is organized by real-world topics that CMIOs need to know, as well as the criteria that the CIO, CMO or CEO should consider in ...
The Cyber Patient: Navigating Virtual Informatics
1st Edition
By Rebecca Mendoza Saltiel Busch
June 30, 2021
With the use of electronic health records (EHR) transforming the healthcare industry, the use of information technology in the maintenance of personal health records poses a range of issues and opportunities for every medical organization, The Cyber Patient expertly walks readers through the ...