Kathleen Mastrian - Informatics for Health Professionals

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Names: Mastrian, Kathleen Garver, author. | McGonigle, Dee, author.

Title: Informatics for health professionals / Kathleen Mastrian, Dee McGonigle.

Description: Second edition. | Burlington : Jones & Bartlett Learning, [2021] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019031246 | ISBN 9781284182095 (paperback)

Subjects: MESH: Medical Informatics Applications | Patient Care | Health Personnel | Professional Competence

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Authors Note

This text provides an overview of health informatics (HI) from the perspective of diverse experts in the field, with a focus on health informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge model. We want our readers and students to focus on the relationship of knowledge to informatics and to embrace and maintain the caring functions essential to all of health caremessages all too often lost in the romance with technology. We hope you enjoy the text!

About This Book

The idea for this text originated with the publication of the third edition of Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge (2015). We realized that other healthcare professionals also needed to learn about informatics and the ways that informatics supports professional practice. We know that the idea of informatics is new to many healthcare professionals, and we believe that all healthcare professionals need to be better prepared for twenty-first-century practice by developing a strong foundation in informatics.

According to the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions (www.asahp.org), allied health professionals represent 60% of the health workforce and are the segment of the workforce that delivers services involving the identification, evaluation and prevention of diseases and disorders; dietary and nutrition services; and rehabilitation and health systems management (para 1). Specifically, this text is designed to introduce health informatics to dental hygienists, diagnostic medical sonographers, dietitians, medical technologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, radiographers, respiratory therapists, and speech-language pathologists. Informatics in nursing is highly specialized and discipline specific, therefore we recommend that nurses and nursing students use the text