Optimizing Healthcare Technology Management: A Guide to Safe and Efficient Quality Care

Winner of two first place AJN Book of the Year Awards, this award-winning resource is a must-have for healthcare professionals seeking to integrate national goals with nursing practice to achieve safe, efficient quality of care through technology management.

Third Edition Highlights

• Emphasizes the importance of federal policy in digitally transforming the U.S. healthcare delivery system, addressing its evolution and current policy initiatives to engage consumers and promote interoperability of the IT infrastructure nationwide.
• Fosters ways to optimize the massive U.S. investment in HIT infrastructure and examines usability, innovative methods of workflow redesign, and challenges with electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs).
• Explores data science, secondary data analysis, and advanced analytic methods in greater depth, along with new information on robotics, artificial intelligence, and ethical considerations.
• Features contributions from a broad array of notable health professionals, reinforcing the book’s focus on interprofessionalism.
• Woven throughout are the themes of point-of-care applications, data management, and analytics, with an emphasis on the interprofessional team.
• Covers emerging challenges proposed by CMS to incorporate social determinants of health.

New to the Third Edition

• Examines current policy initiatives to engage consumers and promote nationwide interoperability of the IT infrastructure.
• Emphasizes usability, workflow redesign, and challenges with electronic clinical quality measures.
• Covers emerging challenge proposed by CMS to incorporate social determinants of health.
• Focuses on data science, secondary data analysis, citizen science, and advanced analytic methods.
• Revised chapter on robotics with up-to-date content relating to the impact on nursing practice.
• New information on artificial intelligence and ethical considerations.
• New case studies and exercises to reinforce learning and specifics for managing public health during and after a pandemic.
• Analytics that focus on health inequity and how to address it.
• Expanded and more advanced coverage of interprofessional practice and education (IPE).
• Enhanced instructor package.

Key Features

• Presents national standards and healthcare initiatives as a guiding structure throughout.
• Advanced analytics is reflected in several chapters such as cybersecurity, genomics, robotics, and specifically exemplify how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) support related professional practice.
• Addresses the new re-envisioned AACN essentials.
• Includes chapter objectives, case studies, end-of-chapter exercises, and questions to reinforce understanding.
• Aligned with QSEN graduate-level competencies and the expanded TIGER (Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform) competencies.

Stay ahead in the rapidly evolving field of healthcare technology management with this comprehensive and authoritative resource.