Healthcare Information Management Systems : Cases, Strategies, and Solutions

This new edition of the classic textbook provides bold and honest descriptions of the current and evolving state of US healthcare information technology. Emerging technologies and novel practice and business models are changing the delivery and management of healthcare, as innovation and adoption meet new needs and challenges, such as those posed by the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Many facets of these are presented in this volume:

• The increasing mutual impact of information technology and healthcare with respect to costs, workforce training and leadership

• The changing state of healthcare IT privacy, security, interoperability and data sharing through health information exchange

• The rise and growing importance of telehealth/telemedicine in the era of COVID-19

• Innovations and trends in the development and deployment of health IT in public health, disease modeling and tracking, and clinical/population health research

• Current work in health IT as it is used in patient safety, chronic disease management, critical care, rehabilitation/long-term/home-based patient care and care coordination

• “Brave new world” visions of healthcare and health IT, with forward- looking considerations of the impact of artificial intelligence, machine learning on healthcare equity and policy

Building on the success of previous editions, this 5th edition of Healthcare Information Management Systems: Cases, Strategies, and Solutions provides healthcare professionals insights to new frontiers and to the directions being taken in the technical, organizational, business and management aspects of information technology in the ongoing quest to optimize healthcare quality and cost, and to improve universal health at all levels.

Dr. Kiel is Professor of Health Management Systems and Health Administration and Public Health (HMS/HAPH) and Chairman of University HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) Compliance at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. She has previously worked at the Pittsburgh Mercy Health System in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, and Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She has won teaching awards, presented at major conferences, and is well published, including co-editorship of the fourth edition of Healthcare Information Management Systems.

Dr. Kim is Research Associate in the Division of General Internal Medicine, Biomedical Informatics and Data Science at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and adjunct faculty in its School of Nursing in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He earned his MD at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, DC, USA, and is board-certified in general pediatrics and clinical informatics. In 1990, he became a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and was a postdoctoral fellow in medical/health sciences informatics at the Lister Hill Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health and at Johns Hopkins. He has co-edited two Springer texts: Pediatric Informatics and the fourth edition of Healthcare Information Management Systems. His areas of interest include clinical informatics workflow, patient safety and health informatics education for clinicians.

Dr. Ball is Executive Director of the Multi-Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics (MICHI), Presidential Distinguished Professor in the College of Nursing and Health Innovation, and the Raj and Indra Nooyi Endowed Distinguished Chair in Bioengineering, at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA. Internationally recognized as a leader, innovator, educator and author in healthcare informatics and education with over forty-five years of experience, she has held many leadership positions, including President of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), Co-Chair of the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS, as well as a founding member of its Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) Initiative), and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI). She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), with past memberships on the Board of Regents of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM), the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), Health on The Net (HON), the College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME), and the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). She has been recognized by HIMSS as one of the Most Influential Women in Health IT and in 2002 was the recipient of the Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence by AMIA. Author of over 350 publications, she has co-edited five editions of this text. Her research focuses on health informatics, curriculum design, education, and bringing enabling technology from theory into practice.