Second Edition continues as the ideal student guide to the history of healthcare informatics, current issues, basic informatics concepts, and health information management applications. With an expanded focus, it now includes essential foundations and clinical applications for undergraduates in addition to evidence-based practice for graduate and DNP students. Using attention-grabbing case scenarios to illustrate important topics, it incorporates the latest research findings and cutting edge innovations. Further, it is one of the first textbooks to include the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009. New to this edition are new chapters on technology and patient safety, system development life cycle, workflow analysis, gaming, simulation, and bioinformatics. With significant contributions from leading experts in the field, Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge, Second Edition provides a complete experience from novice to expert.

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