9781639271719
Patrick Garter
American Medical Publishers
English
2021
Health Care
233
$ 155.99
The study of information technology and its application to the field of healthcare is known as clinical informatics. It constitutes the study and practice of an information-based approach to healthcare delivery where the data must be structured in a certain manner to be effectively retrieved and used in a report or evaluation. Clinical informatics is applied in a wide range of healthcare settings such as hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and the military. It has many subdisciplines such as medical informatics, nursing informatics, pharmacy informatics and nutritional informatics. This book discusses the fundamentals as well as modern approaches to clinical informatics. While understanding the long-term perspectives of the topics, it makes an effort in highlighting their impact as a modern tool for the growth of the discipline. This book will provide comprehensive knowledge to the readers.