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Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century: An International Look at Practice, Education and EHR Trends, 2nd edition


Just released: New Edition of a HIMSS best seller and Book of the Year winner!

Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century is the follow-up to the highly successful, award-winning first edition. Published in 2006, the first edition was a critical resource in chronicling the huge historical shift in nursing linked to the explosion of electronic health record (EHR) national strategies and health policies around the globe. This updated edition, co-published by the American Medical Informatics Association, examines the revolution that has occurred in nursing in the past four years and explores the role information technology is playing in this transformation, with a thoughtful examination of nursing practice, science and research, and education across the globe. 

Make I.T. Known: Marketing Strategies and Case Studies in the Healthcare Environment

New!
Learn how promoting your IT department will help you and your organization succeed!

By Charles E. Christian, FCHIME, FHIMSS; Judith A. Kirby, CPC; and Steven R. Bennett, MA

This book is a guide to marketing your IT department within and to your hospital, health system or organization. Communicating and promoting the purpose of your IT department, its importance to the healthcare organization, and how the IT team's efforts make everyone's job easier and more productive are crucial to your department's... and your personal success. The book will help senior healthcare IT management understand what marketing is and the role it plays; define the role of marketing within a healthcare IT department/division; and view how other healthcare IT organizations approach marketing. The book contains 40 case studies that provide keen insights from senior IT leaders' experiences with marketing their own IT divisions. Specific topics covered are developing a healthcare IT marketing plan; creating a customer-focused culture; public relations; social networking; and crisis communications. 

Change Management Strategies for an Effective EMR Implementation

NEW!

This book should be required reading for any executive planning an EMR implementation!

By Claire McCarthy, MA; and Douglas Eastman, PhD; with David E. Garets, Contributing Editor

Despite the promise of improving care and other benefits, EMR implementations are highly disruptive to the organization. This book prepares you to lead or participate successfully in change management/technology adoption efforts, so that meaningful use of EMRs can be achieved. The authors provide successul strategies to plan and implement change. The content is based on their decades of combined experience managing the people side of implementation.

Information Security in Healthcare: Managing Risk

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An essential guide for implementing a comprehensive information security program!

Edited by Terrell W. Herzig, MSHI, CISSP

Information Security in Healthcare: Managing Risk is the essential guide for implementing a comprehensive information security management program in the modern healthcare environment. Combining the experience and insights of top healthcare IT managers and information security professionals, this book offers a detailed survey on myriad topics.

Read an exclusive interview with editor Terrell W. Herzig, MSHI, CISSP. Read an excerpt.