Ramona Nelson, PhD, RN-BC, ANEF,
FAAN
Professor Emerita
Slippery Rock University
Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania;
President, Ramona Nelson Consulting
Allison Park, Pennsylvania
Nancy Staggers, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor, Informatics
University of Maryland School of Nursing
Baltimore, Maryland;
Adjunct Professor, College of Nursing and
Department of Biomedical Informatics
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

1 Introduction: The Evolution of Health
Informatics, 1
2 Theoretical Foundations of Health
Informatics, 17
3 Evidence-Based Practice and Informatics, 39
4 Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining, and
Practice-Based Evidence, 53
5 Electronic Health Records and Applications for
Managing Patient Care, 71
6 Applications for Managing Institutions
Delivering Healthcare, 90
7 Telehealth and Applications for Delivering
Care at a Distance, 109
8 Home Health and Related Community-Based
Systems, 131
9 Clinical Decision Support Systems in
Healthcare, 148
10 Technical Infrastructure to Support
Healthcare, 163
11 The Evolving ePatient, 178
12 Social Networking and Other Web-Based
Applications in Healthcare, 191
13 Personal Health Records (PHRs), 210
14 Identifying and Selecting an Information System
Solution, 224
15 Implementing and Upgrading an Information
System Solution, 237
16 Health Information Systems: Downtime and
Disaster Recovery, 256
17 Privacy, Confidentiality, Security, and Data
Integrity, 272
18 Standards, 288
19 Health Information Technology Governance, 307
20 Legal Issues, Federal Regulations, and
Accreditation, 313