Clinical Informatics Literacy

Clinical Informatics Literacy: Fundamental Concepts That Every Informatician Should Know is about all aspects of clinical informatics, a sub-set of the larger field of biomedical informatics. Clinical Informatics is an applied field that exists at the intersection of the fields of medicine, computer science, information science, anthropology, human factors engineering, cognitive psychology and health services research. As such informaticians are required to have an extremely broad understanding of a considerable swath of the fields at the heart of the health-oriented knowledge economy. The author has collected and explained each one of the relevant concepts during his experience of 27 years working with many of the leaders in the field of clinical informatics at several of the leading academic healthcare institutions around the USA. The authors’ experience and his didactic approach make this book an essential source of information for all participants of clinical informatics field. Provides fundamental concepts for the field of clinical informaticsOffers a didactic organization with concepts divided in 75 categories - each category consists of a brief overview that contextualizes key conceptsOffers a wide view of the field and prepares the readers for the clinical informatics board-certification exam