Essentials of Clinical Informatics

Mark E. Frisse MD, MS, MBA is Accenture Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Vice Chair for Business Development at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee.Karl E. Misulis MD, PhD is Professor of Clinical Neurology and Clinical Biomedical Informatics at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee. Both authors are experienced clinical informaticians and educators as well as clinicians. Both are board certified inClinical Informatics by ABPM which is an ABMS-approved specialty. Both teach clinical informatics at Vanderbilt.

• Part 1. Introduction: Areas of FocusChapter 1. The Healthcare SystemMark Frisse & Karl Misulis Chapter 2. Healthcare and the Electronic Health RecordKarl Misulis & Mark Frisse Part 2. The FrameworkChapter 3. Data, Information, and KnowledgeKarl Misulis & Mark FrisseChapter 4. People Mark Frisse, Karl MisulisChapter 5. Policies, Laws, Regulations, Contracts, And Procedures Mark Frisse & Karl Misulis Chapter 6. Process: The Learning Health System Karl Misulis & Mark Frisse Part 3. The FoundationChapter 7. Representation & Organization of Health InformationKarl Misulis & Mark Frisse.Chapter 8. Basics of Computers Karl Misulis & Mark FrisseChapter 9. Design of the Core Healthcare Operating SystemDoug Dickey, Karl Misulis, Mark FrisseChapter 10. Data RepositoriesKarl Misulis & Mark Frisse.Chapter 11. Decision-MakingKarl Misulis & Mark Frisse Chapter 12. Information Systems Strategy and AdministrationJeff Frieling, Karl Misulis, & Mark Frisse.Chapter 13. Large Project Management.Jeff Frieling, Karl Misulis, Mark Frisse.Chapter 14. Clinician Interface and ExperiencePaul Weaver, Doug Dickey, Karl Misulis, & Mark Frisse.Chapter 15. Access and Access ControlsKarl Misulis & Mark Frisse.Chapter 16. AnalyticsKarl Misulis & Mark FrisseChapter 17. Decision SupportChristoph U. Lehmann, Karl Misulis, Mark FrisseChapter 18. Security and PrivacyKarl Misulis & Mark FrisseChapter 19. Data ScienceKarl Misulis & Mark FrisseChapter 20. Enabling Technologies Karl Misulis, Mark Frisse Part 4: Application of Informatics in HealthcareChapter 21. Clinical TeamsMark Frisse & Karl MisulisChapter 22. Patients & FamiliesKarl Misulis & Mark FrisseChapter 23. Body, Home, and CommunityMark Frisse & Karl MisulisChapter 24. SpecialtiesKarl Misulis, Mark FrisseChapter 25. Health Information Exchange in PracticeMark Frisse & Karl MisulisChapter 26. Population Health ManagementMark Frisse, Karl MisulisChapter 27. ResearchersMark Frisse & Karl Misulis Part 5. Future trendsChapter 28. On the HorizonKarl Misulis & Mark FrisseChapter 29. Staying CurrentKarl Misulis & Mark Frisse Part 6. AppendixChapter 30. Case discussions.Karl Misulis, Jeff Frieling, Mark FrisseChapter 31. Self-assessmentMark Frisse & Karl Misulis Chapter 32. Reference DataKarl Misulis & Mark Frisse

This book is absolutely excellent and extremely well written. The tone is of a calm, knowledgeable, wise, concerned expert. The background explanation of the troubled, fragmented United States healthcare system is explained quite evenly. The clarity and simplicity used by the authors to define, explain, and give interesting helpful examples for their lessons make very complex concepts easy to understand.