Abstract
As healthcare delivery is largely dependent on an exchange of information between both the patient and the healthcare professional and among the healthcare professionals themselves, health informatics has emerged as a growing field of study. This chapter provides an overview of health informatics, how technology can enhance healthcare quality and quality measurement, the possibilities afforded by big data aggregation, and how to reduce and manage the unintended consequences technology can have on healthcare practices.
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West, D. W. (2020). Health informatics. In Medical Quality Management: Theory and Practice: Third Edition (pp. 91–120). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48080-6_5
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