Textbook and Health Informatics: The Missing Link in Nursing Informatics, Vol. 65 Book

	Foreword	v
	Preface	vii
	Acknowledgments	ix
Section 1	Introduction to Health Care
1.1	Health Concepts	3
1.2	Introduction to Nursing Science	13
1.3	Nursing Information Technology: Classifications and Management	21
1.4	The International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP)	45
1.5	A Nursing Minimum Data Set	98
Section 2	Data Analysis
2.1	Data Analysis Methods	113
2.2	Epidemiological Study Designs	126
2.3	Statistical Methods	136
2.4	Classification Methods	148
Section 3	Health Information and Knowledge Representation
3.1	Health Informatics	167
3.2	Hospital Information Systems	208
3.3	Specialised Information Systems: Diabetes Care	231
3.4	Electronic Health Record	250
3.5	Nursing Information System	258
3.6	Human Interaction	266
3.7	Electronic Data Interchange	292
3.8	Telecare Services for Nursing	298
3.9	Image Processing and Analysis	310
3.10	Knowledge Representation and Nursing Informatics	328
3.11	Multimedia Technologies in Education	359
Section 4	Organizational Impact
4.1	Health Care Systems	375
4.2	Organizational Impact of Health Information Systems in Healthcare	396
4.3	The Impact of Communications and Information Technology on Organisations	407
4.4	Impact in Nursing Environment	422
4.5	Quality Assurance Issues	428
4.6	Communication among Health Care Professionals	440
4.7	Data Protection and Confidentiality	450
4.8	Education in Health and Nursing Informatics	465
	Appendix A	473
	Glossary	482
	Subject Index	494
	Author Index	500
	Authors--Address and Affiliation	501