Books


Clinical Informatics Literacy: 5000 Concepts That Every Informatician Should Know

Clinical Informatics Literacy: 5000 Concepts That Every Informatician Should Know is about all aspects of clinical informatics, a subset of the larger field of biomedical informatics. Clinical Informatics is an applied field that exists at the intersection of the fields of medicine, computer science, information science, anthropology, human factors engineering, cognitive psychology […]


Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: An Implementer’s Guide, 2nd Edition

Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: An Implementer’s Guide, 2nd Edition Co-published by HIMSS, the Scottsdale Institute, AMIA, AMDIS and SHM, this second edition of the authoritative guide to CDS implementation has been substantially enhanced with expanded and updated guidance on using CDS interventions to improve care delivery and outcomes. […]


SAFER Electronic Health Records: Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience

SAFER Electronic Health Records: Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience Electronic health records (EHRs) have the potential to improve the quality and safety of health care. Since the enactment of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH), organizations are adopting EHRs at an unprecedented rate. While […]


Better EHR: Usability, workflow and cognitive support in electronic health records

“Better EHR: Usability, Workflow and Cognitive Support in Electronic Health Records” — a book published by the National Center for Cognitive Informatics & Decision Making in Healthcare. One of the biggest complaints we hear from healthcare providers is that the EHR is clunky, difficult to use, and sometimes gets in […]