10 Best Books on Health Informatics

We have compiled a list of the Best Reference Books on Health Informatics, which are used by students of top universities, and colleges. This will help you choose the right book depending on if you are a beginner or an expert. Here is the complete list of Health Informatics Books with their authors, publishers, and an unbiased review of them as well as links to the Amazon website to directly purchase them. If permissible, you can also download the free PDF books on Health Informatics below.

 
1."Guide to Health Informatics" by COIERA
“Guide to Health Informatics” Book Review: This book provides a brief concept of the information technologies in health care. The book is designed for physicians interested in a fellowship program in medical informatics. The book covers areas such as the electronics medical record, searching, protocols, communications along with the internet. The book is updated with information on current issues and the developments in the field. It also discusses the impact of social media, nation scale health information systems. The book also contains glossaries, discussion points, MCQs, references linked to MedLine.

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2."Public Health Informatics: Designing for change - a developing country perspective" by Sundeep Sahay and Sundararaman T
“Public Health Informatics: Designing for change – a developing country perspective” Book Review: This book provides information on the challenges in the design, development and implementation of health information systems. The book explains key problems including sub adequate data and problems of interoperability. It also discusses approaches for addressing these challenges in low and middle income countries. The book discusses case studies for building oh HISs and determining the successes and failures of varying approaches. This book will be helpful for software developers as well as public health practitioners and researchers.

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3."Health Informatics: An Interprofessional Approach" by Nelson
“Health Informatics: An Interprofessional Approach” Book Review: This book describes the intersection of information technology with health care. The book covers information systems and applications including electronic health records, clinical decision support, etc,. The book is updated with topics such as data science and analytics, mHealth, principles of project management and contract negotiations. It provides information on the key quality and safety education for nurses. The book includes case studies for applying concepts of health informatics to real world nursing practice. It also includes conclusion and future directions sections at the end of chapter.

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4."Innovation with Information Technologies in Healthcare (Health Informatics)" by Lyle Berkowitz and Chris McCarthy
“Innovation with Information Technologies in Healthcare (Health Informatics)” Book Review: This book provides information on the innovation with information technology in healthcare. It discusses the meaning of innovation in healthcare. The book also discusses the successful innovation of IT in healthcare. It includes real life examples and guidance.

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5."Thesaurus of Health Informatics: 53 SHTI (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics)" by M E Sievert
“Thesaurus of Health Informatics: 53 SHTI (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics)” Book Review: This book provides complete information on health informatics. The book is a historical collection from the 1970s of University of Missouri Columbia. This book describes health informatics as a multidisciplinary field as well as an evolving field. The book concentrates on recent literature as a main source of data. It has used current terms with the same concept by changing its nomenclature.

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6."Aspects of Electronic Health Record Systems (Health Informatics)" by H Pardes and Harold P Lehmann
“Aspects of Electronic Health Record Systems (Health Informatics)” Book Review: This book addresses the needs of decision makers from EHR-Ss. The book is designed for chief information officers, chief medical information officers, etc,. The book provides information on the need of a variety of stakeholders, imminent technologies. It outlines the background and general notions of EHRS and layout the framework. The book provides a high level view of EHR systems and the practical views of existing systems and current issues of EHR systems. The book also addresses technology issues from front end and back.

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7."Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 15: In Vivo, in Vitro, in Silico - Designing the Next in Medicine (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics)" by J D Westwood and Randy S Haluck
“Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 15: In Vivo, in Vitro, in Silico – Designing the Next in Medicine (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics)” Book Review: This book talks about how design and medicine are merging with virtual reality. It explains three different environments where this happens: in vivo, in vitro, and in silico. In vivo is when machines are designed to explore the living body, in vitro is when the living body is isolated in test tubes and petri dishes to manipulate and measure biological reactions, and in silico is when virtual reality is used to simulate the biological conditions. The book shows how the future of medicine will involve all three environments.

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8."Blood Pressure and Heart Rate Variability: Computer Analysis, Methodology and Clinical Applications: 4 SHTI (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics)" by Di Rienzo
“Blood Pressure and Heart Rate Variability: Computer Analysis, Methodology and Clinical Applications: 4 SHTI (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics)” Book Review: The book provides information for the analysis of blood pressure and heart rate variability from the different physiologists, clinicians and engineers. The book focuses on the method of ambulatory blood pressure and heart rate analysis. It also discusses the mathematical models derived from data. The book explains the present and future use of computer analysis for the observations of the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases.

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9."Machine Learning in Healthcare Informatics (Intelligent Systems Reference Library)" by Sumeet Dua and U Rajendra Acharya
“Machine Learning in Healthcare Informatics (Intelligent Systems Reference Library)” Book Review: This book offers a variety of techniques which are designed for representing machine learning research in healthcare informatics. It discusses the emerging machine learning paradigms in healthcare informatics. The book also addresses the diversity, complexity along with the depth and breadth of machine learning. It also explains the integrated and panoramic view of data and machine learning techniques.

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10."Health Informatics: A Systems Perspective" by Kalyan S. Pasupathy and Gordon D Brown
“Health Informatics: A Systems Perspective” Book Review: This book explains how informatics is changing healthcare technology. It is written for medical professionals, nurses, and healthcare IT professionals. The book includes 15 case studies with learning objectives, key concepts, and questions. It discusses electronic medical records and the importance of medical vocabularies.

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