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21. |  Connected for Health: Using Electronic Health Records to Transform Care Delivery By: Louise L. Liang; Donald M. Berwick MD MPP Publisher: Pfeiffer Publication Date: 25-MAY-2010 Insert Date: 07-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Connected for Health: Using Electronic Health Records to Transform Care Delivery
Kaiser Permanente has implemented the largest nongovernmental electronic health record in the world, serving more than 8.6 million Kaiser Permanente members. Called KP HealthConnect, its impact on patient care outcomes, efficiency, safety, and patient engagement and satisfaction already is of intense interest throughout the health care industry. In this volume, Louise L. Liang, MD, who led the massive KP HealthConnect implementation, collects lessons learned from the organization's successful deployment strategy and highlights ways in which the new technological tools are changing and...
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22. |  E-Health Care Information Systems: An Introduction for Students and Professionals By: Joseph Tan Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 02-MAY-2005 Insert Date: 05-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: E-Health Care Information Systems: An Introduction for Students and Professionals
E-Health Care Information Systems is a comprehensive collection written by leading experts from a range of disciplines including medicine, health sciences, engineering, business information systems, general science, and computing technology. This easily followed text provides a theoretical framework with sound methodological approaches and is filled with numerous case examples. Topics include e-health records, e-public information systems, e-network and surveys, general and specific applications of e-health such as e-rehabilitation, e-medicine, e-homecare, e-diagnosis support systems, and...
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23. |  Communication and Nursing Education By: Anurag Bhai Patidar Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 03-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 21-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Communication and Nursing Education
Based on the latest syllabus of the Indian Nursing Council, Communication and Nursing Education is written primarily for students pursuing B.Sc. in nursing. It covers a wide range of topics such as curriculum development, classroom management, teaching-learning process and evaluation methods for didactic and clinical settings. While there is an entire chapter devoted to the in-service education, issues like interpersonal relationships, human relationships and communication are also comprehensively discussed. The text is supplemented with the most up-to-date teaching and learning techniques...
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24. |  Medical Applications of Intelligent Data Analysis By: Rafael Magdalena-Benedito; Emilio Soria-Olivas; Juan Martínez; Juan Gómez-Sanchis; Antonio Serrano-López Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 05-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Medical Applications of Intelligent Data Analysis One major challenge facing modern medicine is to fulfill the promise and potential of the enormous increase in medical data sets of all kinds.Medical Applications of Intelligent Data Analysis: Research Advancements explores the potential of utilizing this medical data through the implementation of developed models in practical applications. This premier reference source features chapters contributed by specialists in a variety of intelligent data analysis (IDA) fields related to medicine, health, and bioinformatics. All of these contributions are devoted to describing the practical medical...
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25. |  Healthcare Information Technology Innovation and Sustainability By: Joseph Tan Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 04-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Healthcare Information Technology Innovation and Sustainability Healthcare Information Technology Innovation and Sustainability: Frontiers and Adoption presents research in the emerging field on information systems and informatics in the healthcare industry. By addressing innovative concepts and critical issues through case studies and experimental research, this reference source is useful for practitioners, researchers and academics aiming to advance the knowledge and practice of these interdisciplinary fields of healthcare information....
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26. |  Digital Advancements in Medicine, E-Health, and Communication Technologies By: Joel Rodrigues Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 04-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Digital Advancements in Medicine, E-Health, and Communication Technologies Digital Advancements in Medicine, E-Health, and Communication Technologies explores the developments and trends in medical informatics and its approaches toward telemedicine and e-health applications. This comprehensive collection of research brings together academia and industry by highlighting recent advances in electronic health, medical communications and applications for e-health and medicine. ...
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27. |  By: IRMA International Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 04-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: User-Driven Healthcare User-Driven Healthcare: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications provides a global discussion on the practice of user driven learning in healthcare and connected disciplines and its influence on learning through clinical problem solving. This book brings together different perspectives for researchers and practitioners to develop a comprehensive framework of user-driven healthcare. ...
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28. |  Medical Advancements in Aging and Regenerative Technologies By: Andriani Daskalaki Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 04-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Medical Advancements in Aging and Regenerative Technologies Studies of developmental biology are now benefiting the advancements made in the field of regenerative medicine. Current research on aging will attempt to reverse visible aging characteristics of somatic cells using cellular reprogramming to by-pass senescence. Medical Advancements in Aging and Regenerative Technologies: Clinical Tools and Applications aims to translate basic science discoveries into regenerative therapies with the application of clinical tool in aging and tissue regeneration. The understanding of the characteristics affecting the aging process is an effort to guide...
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29. |  By: V. Deepa Parvathi Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 20-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 21-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Genetics for Nurses
Genetics for Nurses has been designed considering the syllabi requirements laid down by the Indian Nursing Council and the leading nursing colleges. The book has a variety of case studies and review questions to support the theoretical concepts and is an unique offering to the undergraduate students of nursing.
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30. |  By: Uma Bhardwaj; Ravindra Bhardwaj Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 12-DEC-2011 Insert Date: 21-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Biochemistry for Nurses
Biochemistry for Nurses has been designed considering the syllabi requirements laid down by The Indian Nursing Council and other premier institutes/universities. Book covers the most up-to-date developments in the area of Biochemistry and presents all the essential course information required for all UG course in an easy-to-follow and step-by-step format.
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31. |  E-Health Technologies and Improving Patient Safety: Exploring Organizational Factors By: Anastasius Moumtzoglou; Anastasia Kastania Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 14-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: E-Health Technologies and Improving Patient Safety: Exploring Organizational Factors Advancements in technology regularly influence the healthcare field and developing aspects on medical patient safety. Implementing electronic health records, decision support systems, and computerized physician order entry systems reduces risk in the potential for e-health to make errors leading to adverse events. E-Health Technologies and Improving Patient Safety: Exploring Organizational Factors presents an overview on information and communication technologies and addresses the impacts on the field of both patient safety and e-health. This book offers insightful perspectives and...
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32. |  Neonatal Monitoring Technologies By: Wei Chen; Sidarto Oetomo; Loe Feijs Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-APR-2012 Insert Date: 01-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Neonatal Monitoring Technologies Neonatal monitoring refers to the monitoring of vital physiological parameters of premature infants and full-term infants that are critically ill. In the last decades, several important treatment modalities emerged that had a substantial impact on the mortality of prematurely born infants. However, there is a concomitant increase of neurobehavioral problems on long-term follow-up.Neonatal Monitoring Technologies: Design for Integrated Solutions presents a unique integration of knowledge from multidisciplinary fields of engineering, industrial design, and medical science for the healthcare of...
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33. |  Mathematical Tools for Understanding Infectious Disease Dynamics: By: Odo Diekmann; Hans Heesterbeek; Tom Britton Publisher: Princeton University Press Publication Date: 18-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 29-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Mathematical Tools for Understanding Infectious Disease Dynamics:
Mathematical modeling is critical to our understanding of how infectious diseases spread at the individual and population levels. This book gives readers the necessary skills to correctly formulate and analyze mathematical models in infectious disease epidemiology, and is the first treatment of the subject to integrate deterministic and stochastic models and methods. Mathematical Tools for Understanding Infectious Disease Dynamics fully explains how to translate biological assumptions into mathematics to construct useful and consistent models, and how to use the biological interpretation...
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34. |  MACE Exam Cram: Medication Aide Certification Exam By: Linda Whitenton; Marty Walker Publisher: Pearson Certification Publication Date: 28-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 24-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: MACE Exam Cram: Medication Aide Certification Exam This is the eBook version of the print
title. The eBook edition does not provide access to the test engine
that accompanies the print book.
“I highly recommend this book
because it will be very useful for any candidate writing the MACE.
It is comprehensive, practical, and follows the MACE test
plan.”–Verine J. Parks-Doyle, RN, BSN, MSN,
EdD.
Covers exactly what you need to know to score higher on your
MACE exam
More than 100 sample test questions help you gain confidence
and decide when you’re ready to take the actual exam
Includes the popular Cram Sheet tearcard to help you...
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35. |  Pharmacoinformatics and Drug Discovery Technologies By: Tagelsir Gasmelseid Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 23-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pharmacoinformatics and Drug Discovery Technologies Within the context of integrated health management domains, pharmacoinformatics aims at maximizing the benefits from the use of information systems and technologies for the provision of decision support tools necessary for improved drug management, use, and administration practices.Pharmacoinformatics and Drug Discovery Technologies: Theories and Applications offers the latest the field has to offer to practitioners and academics alike, presented through theoretical frameworks, case studies, and future directions. This vital resource gathers an integrated pattern of high quality publications...
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36. |  Innovations in Data Methodologies and Computational Algorithms for Medical Applications By: Aryya Gangopadhyay Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 23-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Innovations in Data Methodologies and Computational Algorithms for Medical Applications Medicine has, until recently, been slow to adapt to information technologies and systems for many reasons, but the future lies therein.Innovations in Data Methodologies and Computational Algorithms for Medical Applications offers the most cutting-edge research in the field, offering insights into case studies and methodologies from around the world. The text details the latest developments and will serve as a vital resource to practitioners and academics alike in the burgeoning field of medical applications of technologies. As security and privacy improve, Electronic Health Records and...
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37. |  Nursing and Clinical Informatics By: Bettina Staudinger; Victoria Höß; Herwig Ostermann Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 28-FEB-2009 Insert Date: 19-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Nursing and Clinical Informatics The field of nursing informatics is one of the fastest growing areas of medical informatics. As the industry grows, so does the need for obtaining the most recent, up-to-date research in this significant field of study.
Nursing and Clinical Informatics: Socio-Technical Approaches gives a general overview of the current state of nursing informatics paying particular attention to its social, socio-technical, and political aspects to further research and development projects. A unique international comparative work, this book covers the core areas of nursing informatics with a technical and...
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38. |  Improved Signal and Image Interpolation in Biomedical Applications By: Carlo Ciulla Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-MAR-2009 Insert Date: 19-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Improved Signal and Image Interpolation in Biomedical Applications Advances have been made in improved signal and image interpolation that derive a unified framework, thus achieving improvement of the approximation properties of the interpolation function regardless of its dimensionality or degree.
Improved Signal and Image Interpolation in Biomedical Applications: The Case of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) presents a novel approach for the improvement of the approximation characteristics of interpolation functions. A unique and original resource, this book approaches both the theory and methodology absent from most publications of its kind, a valuable...
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39. |  Medical Informatics in Obstetrics and Gynecology By: David Parry; Emma Parry Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-NOV-2008 Insert Date: 19-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Medical Informatics in Obstetrics and Gynecology Women’s health comprises a large range of activities including fertility and reproductive health and screening and treatment for gynecological conditions, with computer systems providing vital support.
Medical Informatics in Obstetrics and Gynecology provides industry knowledge and insight to challenges in the areas of informatics that are important to women’s health. Covering topics such as ethical and legal issues, imaging and communication systems, and electronic health records, this Medical Information Science Reference publication provides medical libraries and researchers, as well as...
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40. |  Human, Social, and Organizational Aspects of Health Information Systems By: Andre W. Kushniruk; Elizabeth M. Borycki Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-APR-2008 Insert Date: 19-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Human, Social, and Organizational Aspects of Health Information Systems Human, Social, and Organizational Aspects of Health Information Systems offers an evidence-based management approach to issues associated with the human and social aspects of designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining health information systems across a healthcare organization—specific to an individual, team, organizational, system, and international perspective. Integrating knowledge from multiple levels, this book will benefit scholars and practitioners from the medical information, health service management, information technology arenas. ...
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