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.
Beyond Return on Investment: Expanding the Value of Healthcare Information Technology
2nd Edition
By Pam W. Arlotto, Patricia C. Birch, Marla H. Crockett, Susan P. Irby, Pam Arlotto, Susan Irby
January 30, 2019
Beyond Return on Investment: Expanding the Value of Healthcare Information Technology, 2nd Edition this updated and revised edition provides lessons learned from healthcare IT adoption and the opportunity to drive value realization. From providing a basic primer on 'how-to' complete a Return on ...
An Introduction to Nursing Informatics, Evolution, and Innovation, 2nd Edition: Evolution and Innovation
2nd Edition
Edited
By Susan M. Houston, Tina Dieckhaus, Bob Kircher, Michelle Lardner
November 20, 2018
Nursing informatics (NI) is the specialty that integrates nursing science with information management and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage, and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice. Nursing Informatics supports nurses, consumers, patients, the ...
Assessing the Value of Digital Health: Leveraging the HIMSS Value STEPS™ Framework
1st Edition
By Kendall Cortelyou-Ward, Margaret Schulte, Lorren Pettit
October 08, 2018
HIMSS set out to develop a dynamic framework by which to easily catalogue the varied beneficial evidences of digital health. From this effort, HIMSS introduced to the market the HIMSS Value STEPS™ framework. This book will leverage the HIMSS Value STEPS™ model to identify and define the ...
Performance Improvement in Hospitals and Health Systems: Managing Analytics and Quality in Healthcare, 2nd Edition
2nd Edition
By James Langabeer II
February 20, 2018
Healthcare Organizations offer significant opportunities for change and improvement in their overall performance. Hospitals and clinics are generally large, complex, and inefficient, and need serious development in process workflow and management systems, which will ultimately lead to better ...
Performance Management in Healthcare: From Key Performance Indicators to Balanced Scorecard
2nd Edition
By Bryan P. Bergeron
December 05, 2017
Performance management, often referred to as process management, is a strategy that can be used to achieve an optimum mix of quality, safety, patient satisfaction and solvency. The basis of performance management is the effective use of resources, as measured by quantifying processes and outcomes ...
Planning Quality Project Management of (EMR/EHR) Software Products
1st Edition
By Richard Chamberlain
November 03, 2017
When hospitals began implementing their electronic medical records/electronic health records systems (EMR/HER) the pharmaceutical companies that were conducting clinical trials at those hospitals wanted to sue the date from those systems instead of having the hospitals enter the data in their EHR ...
Participatory Healthcare: A Person-Centered Approach to Healthcare Transformation
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan Oldenburg, Mary P. Griskewicz
August 18, 2016
This book is written through the lens of patients, caregivers, healthcare representatives and families, highlighting new models of interaction between providers and patients and what people would like in their healthcae experience. It will envision a new kind of healthcare system that recommends on...
Leveraging Data in Healthcare: Best Practices for Controlling, Analyzing, and Using Data
1st Edition
By Rebecca Mendoza Saltiel Busch
December 10, 2015
The healthcare industry is in a state of accelerated transition. The proliferation of data and its assimilation, access, use, and security are ever-increasing challenges. Finding ways to operationalize business and clinical data management in the face of government and market mandates is enough to ...
Connected Medical Devices: Integrating Patient Care Data in Healthcare Systems
1st Edition
By John Zaleski
March 27, 2015
Within a healthcare enterprise, patient vital signs and other automated measurements are communicated from connected medical devices to end-point systems, such as electronic health records, data warehouses and standalone clinical information systems. Connected Medical Devices: Integrating Patient ...
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 ...