Integrating Policy, Technology, and Practice to Advance Safe, Data-Driven, Interprofessional Care.

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Award-winning and thoroughly revised, this text integrates national standards and policy with point-of-care technology, data management, analytics, and interprofessional teamwork to improve patient safety, quality, and outcomes. Chapters blend policy context with practical tools for usability, workflow redesign, decision support, and evaluation.

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Current policy initiatives that engage consumers and promote nationwide interoperability
Usability and workflow redesign with challenges in electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs)
Incorporating social determinants of health (CMS)
Data science, secondary data analysis, citizen science, and advanced analytics
Revised robotics chapter
New content on artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and the ethical concerns new technologies raise
COVID-19 pandemic lessons on data availability, quality, and use for community health prediction
Analytics that address health inequity
Expanded interprofessional practice and education (IPE)

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Coverage of cybersecurity, genomics, robotics, and how AI/ML support practice
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Contents

Section I: Introduction

Chapter 1: Introduction to Health Information Technology in a Policy and Regulatory Environment

Susan McBride and Mari Tietze

Chapter 2: Advanced Practice Roles in Interprofessional Teams

Carol J. Bickford and Mari Tietze

Chapter 3: Scientific and Theoretical Foundations for Driving Improvement

Richard Booth, Susan McBride, and Mari Tietze

Chapter 4: National Healthcare Transformation and Information Technology

Liz Johnson, Susan McBride, David Bergman, Mari Tietze

Chapter 5: Consumer Engagement/Activation Enhanced by Technology

Mari Tietze and Patricia Hinton Walker

Section II: Point-of-Care Technology

Chapter 6: Computers in Healthcare

Susan McBride, Richard E. Gilder, and Deb McCullough

Chapter 7: Electronic Health Records and Point-of-Care Technology

Mary Beth Mitchell and Susan McBride

Chapter 8: Systems Development Life Cycle for Achieving Meaningful Use

Susan McBride, Susan K. Newbold, David Fulton

Chapter 9: Workflow Redesign in a Quality-Improvement Modality

Susan McBride, Stephanie H. Hoelscher

Chapter 10: Evaluation Methods and Strategies for Electronic Health Records

Susan McBride, Mary Beth Mitchell, and David DeAbreu

Chapter 11: Electronic Health Records and Health Information Exchanges Providing Value and Results for Patients, Providers, and Healthcare Systems

Anne Kimbol, Susan McBride, Tony Gilman, and George R. Gooch

Chapter 12: National Standards for Health Information Technology

Susan H. Fenton and Susan McBride

Chapter 13: Public Health Data to Support Healthy Communities in Health Assessment & Planning

Sue Pickens, Susan McBride, Steve Miff, Mari Tietze

Chapter 14: Privacy and Security in a Ubiquitous Health Information Technology World

Susan McBride, Helen Caton-Peters, and Kristin Jenkins

Chapter 15: Personal Health Records and Patient Portals

Mari Tietze, Stephanie H. Hoelschler

Chapter 16: Telehealth and Mobile Health

Mari Tietze and Georgia A. Brown

Section III: Data Management

Chapter 17: Strategic Thinking in Design and Deployment of Enterprise Data, Reporting, and Analytics

Trish Smith and Susan McBride

Chapter 18: Data Management and Analytics: The Foundations for Improvemen

Susan McBride and Mari Tietze

Chapter 19: Clinical Decision Support Systems

Joni S. Padden, Dwayne Hoelscher, Susan McBride, Mari Tietze

Section IV: Patient Safety/Quality and Population Health

Chapter 20: Health Information Technology and Implications for Patient Safety

Mari Tietze and Susan McBride

Chapter 21: Quality-Improvement Strategies and Essential Tools

Susan McBride, Mari Tietze, and John Terrell

Chapter 22: National Prevention Strategy, Population Health, and Health Information & Technology

Andrea L. Lorden, Mari Tietze, and Susan McBride

Chapter 23: Electronic Clinical Quality Measures: Building an Infrastructure for Success

Susan McBride, Kimberly M. Bodine, and Liz Johnson

Chapter 24: Developing Competencies in Nursing for an Electronic Age of Healthcare

Laura Thomas, Susan McBride, Sharon Decker, Matthew Pierce, and Mari Tietze

Section V: New and Emerging Technologies

Chapter 25: Genomics and Implications for Health Information Technology

Diane C. Seibert, Susan McBride, and Mary Madeline Rogge

Chapter 26: Nanotechnology, Nanorobotics, and Implications for Healthcare Interprofessional Teams

Mari Tietze and Susan McBride

Chapter 27: "Big Data" and Advanced Analytics

Susan McBride, Cynthia Powers, Richard E. Gilder, Wesley Rhodes, Annette Sobel,
and Billy U. Philips, Jr.

Chapter 28: Social Media: Ongoing Evolution in Healthcare Delivery

Lyndsay Foisey, Richard Booth, Susan McBride, and Mari Tietze

Chapter 29: Enhancing Cybersecurity in New and Emerging Health Informatics Environments

Susan McBride, Annette Sobel, and Wesley Rhodes

Chapter 30: Interprofessional Application of Health Information Technology in Education

Mari Tietze and Stacey Brown

Authors

Susan McBride, PhD, RN, NI-BC, CPHIMS, FAAN, is a nursing informaticist with over 25 years of experience in clinical informatics whose research focus is on methods development for implementing, evaluating, and utilizing health information technology and data to improve patient safety, quality, and population health. Dr. McBride is a Professor and the Associate Dean of Research for the School of Nursing at the University of Texas at Tyler. She is executive oversight of the University of Texas Tyler Health Science Center Institute for Health Innovation, Data Science and Research overseeing data science labs across campuses, supporting researchers in use of large clinical and population health datasets.Dr. McBride is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and a member of the Informatics and Technology Expert Panel serving as Chair of the panel for 2019. She is a professor with prior curriculum development and teaching experience in graduate education for statistics, informatics, and epidemiology. She has developed and deployed software and services in the for-profit and not-for-profit arenas in the United States and has managed data repositories of clinical and administrative data in several positions over the past 20 years.

Mari Tietze, PhD, RN, NI-BC, FHIMSS, FAAN, is the Myrna R. Pickard Endowed Professor at the University of Texas (UTA) College of Nursing and Health Innovation and the Affiliate to the UTA Center for Innovation in Health Informatics (CIHI). There she teaches and is the Director of the MSN in Nursing Health Informatics degree and certificate program. Previously, she worked as senior manager, Center for Research and Innovation, VHA Inc., in Irving, Texas. She also served as director of nursing research and informatics in the Dallas–Fort Worth Hospital Council’s Education and Research Foundation. In that role, she was responsible for deployment of the Council’s 3-year technology implementation project on behalf of the Small Community, Rural Hospitals Research Grant, a National Institutes of Health grant funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. She was a key member of a team that was awarded an $8.4 million grant for a Regional Extension Center in North Texas. She directed workforce center nursing research and data initiative informatics projects. She is board certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center in informatics nursing and a fellow of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (FHIMSS).

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