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Public Health Informatics and Information Systems

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Overview

  • Updates many existing chapters with significant revisions to provide a current picture of the discipline, while replacing other chapters with entirely new content
  • Reflects changes in health information technology policy that have swept through the field of health information exchange
  • Contains an updated perspective on public health in general and the implications for healthcare technology and its application

Part of the book series: Health Informatics (HI)

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Context for Public Health Informatics

  2. The Science of Public Health Informatics

  3. Key Public Health Information Systems

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About this book

This 3rd edition of a classic textbook examines the context and background of public health informatics, explores the technology and science underlying the field, discusses challenges and emerging solutions, reviews many key public health information systems, and includes practical, case-based studies to guide the reader through the topic. The editors have expanded the text into new areas that have become important since publication of the previous two editions due to changing technologies and needs in the field, as well as updating and augmenting much of the core content. The book contains learning objectives, overviews, future directions, and review questions to assist readers to engage with this vast topic. The Editors and their team of well-known contributors have built upon the foundation established by the previous editions to provide the reader with a comprehensive and forward-looking review of public health informatics.

The breadth of material in Public Health Informatics and Information Systems, 3rd edition makes it suitable for both undergraduate and graduate coursework in public health informatics, enabling instructors to select chapters that best fit their students’ needs.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, USA

    J.A. Magnuson

  • Department of Epidemiology, Indiana University, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indianapolis, USA

    Brian E. Dixon

About the editors

Dr. Magnuson is an informaticist with an extensive background in public health, teaching, and research. Her fields of experience include academia (faculty and graduate advisor), state public health (health informatics architect), and private industry (genomic informatics system engineer).

Dr. Dixon currently serves as the Director of the Public Health Informatics Program and a Research Scientist at the Regenstrief Institute in addition to his role as Associate Professor at the Indiana University (IU) Fairbanks School of Public Health. Dr. Dixon’s research focuses on applying informatics methods and tools to improve population health in clinical as well as public health organizations. His work leverages clinical and administrative data in electronic health records to measure population health, better understand the determinants of health, examine information flow in the health system, and improve outcomes in individuals and populations. Previously, Dr. Dixon developed health information applications and systems, including tools supporting the standard clinical vocabulary LOINC®, technology supporting the automated reporting of notifiable conditions to public health agencies, and tools for querying large clinical data repositories.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Public Health Informatics and Information Systems

  • Editors: J.A. Magnuson, Brian E. Dixon

  • Series Title: Health Informatics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41215-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41214-2Published: 18 July 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41217-3Published: 18 July 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-41215-9Published: 17 July 2020

  • Series ISSN: 1431-1917

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-3741

  • Edition Number: 3

  • Number of Pages: XI, 524

  • Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Health Informatics, Public Health, Health Informatics

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