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.
Medical Informatics: An Executive Primer, Third Edition
3rd Edition
By Kenneth R. Ong
March 27, 2015
This third edition of HIMSS' award-winning, bestseller explores how clinicians, patients, and health IT stakeholders are collaborating to support high-value care through health IT. Medical Informatics: An Executive Primer continues to explore information technologies applied in hospital settings, ...
Analytics in Healthcare: An Introduction
1st Edition
Edited
By Ray Gensinger, Genevieve Melton, Kim Ott, Herb Smaltz, David Garets, Sam Van Norman, Nate Wells, James Adams, Gyorgy Simon
February 07, 2014
Analytics in Healthcare: An Introduction provides a clear, straightforward roadmap to achieving your goals within the domain of healthcare analytics. Whether you are a student looking for a career path or a staff member within a healthcare organization needing to apply the value that your ...
Applying Social Media Technologies in Healthcare Environments
1st Edition
Edited
By Christina Beach Thielst
February 07, 2014
Applying Social Media Technologies in Healthcare Environments provides an indispensable overview of successful use of the latest innovations in the healthcare provider-patient relationship. As professionals realize that success in the business of healthcare requires incorporation of the tools of ...
Effective Strategies for Change
1st Edition
By Claire McCarthy, Dave Garets, Doug Eastman
February 07, 2014
Effective Strategies for Change is a newly revised edition of HIMSS' bestseller Change Management Strategies for an Effective EMR Implementation. Published in 2009, Change Management Strategies prepared readers to lead or participate successfully in change management/technology adoption ...
Geek Doctor: Life as Healthcare CIO
1st Edition
By John D. Halamka
February 07, 2014
In his highly regarded blog, Life as a Healthcare CIO, John Halamka records his experiences with health IT leadership, infrastructure, applications, policies, management, governance, and standardization of data. But he also muses on topics such as reducing our carbon footprint, sustainable farming,...
Engage!: Transforming Healthcare Through Digital Patient Engagement
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan Oldenburg, Dave Chase, Kate T. Christensen, Brad Tritle
February 07, 2013
This book explores the benefits of digital patient engagement, from the perspectives of physicians, providers, and others in the healthcare system, and discusses what is working well in this new, digitally-empowered collaborative environment. Chapters present the changing landscape of patient ...
Implementing Information Security in Healthcare: Building a Security Program
1st Edition
By Terrell Herzig, Tom Walsh
February 07, 2013
Implementing Information Security in Healthcare: Building a Security Program offers a critical and comprehensive look at healthcare security concerns in an era of powerful computer technology, increased mobility, and complex regulations designed to protect personal information. Featuring ...
Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: An Implementer's Guide, Second Edition
2nd Edition
By Jerry Osheroff, Jonathan Teich, Donald Levick, Luis Saldana, Ferdinand Velasco, Dean Sittig, Kendall Rogers, Robert Jenders
February 17, 2012
Winner of the 2012 HIMSS Book of the Year Award! Co-published by HIMSS, the Scottsdale Institute, AMIA, AMDIS and SHM, this second edition of the authoritative guide to CDS implementation has been substantially enhanced with expanded and updated guidance on using CDS interventions to improve care ...
IT Governance in Hospitals and Health Systems
1st Edition
By Roger Kropf, Guy Scalzi
January 18, 2012
Without a governance structure, IT at many hospitals and healthcare systems is a haphazard endeavor that typically results in late, over-budget projects and, ultimately, disparate systems. IT Governance in Hospitals and Health Systems offers a practical "how to" in creating an information ...
Rethinking Return on Investment: The Challenge of Accountable Meaningful Use
1st Edition
By Pam Arlotto
January 17, 2012
Rethinking Return on Investment: The Challenge of Accountable Meaningful Use offers a timely exploration of the value achieved through the Meaningful Use of electronic health records and other components of the HITECH legislation. The authors provide a look back at how ROI of health IT has ...
Complete Guide and Toolkit to Successful EHR Adoption
1st Edition
By Jeffery Daigrepoint, Debra McGrath
January 21, 2011
An EHR transformation touches virtually every aspect of a medical practice and brings about an entirely new way of thinking and managing a practice. Regardless of where you are at in your EHR implementation journey--adopting a new EHR or trying to optimize an existing EHR, the Complete Guide and ...
The Health Information Exchange Formation Guide: The Authoritative Guide for Planning and Forming an HIE in Your State, Region or Community
1st Edition
By Laura Kolkman, Bob Brown
January 21, 2011
Winner of HIMSS 2011 Book of the Year Award! The HIMSS Book of the Year Award honors a book that offers outstanding practical guidance and/or strategic insight for healthcare information and management systems professionals. "The electronic exchange of health information is an essential ...