Health information : management of a strategic resource / Mervat Abdelhak, PhD, RHIA, FAHIMA, Managing Editor, Department Chair and Associate Professor, Health Information Management, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; Mary Alice Hanken, PhD, RHIA, CHPS, Editor, Senior Lecturer, Health Informatics and Health Information Management Programs (Master's and Baccalaureate), School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, Quality Manager, Sound Mental Health, Seattle, Washington.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section I. Foundations of health information management -- Health care systems -- The health informatics and information management profession -- Section II. Health care data and information systems -- Health information infrastructure and systems -- Health data concepts and information governance -- Data access and retention -- Electronic health record systems -- Section III. Health care informatics -- Classification systems, clinical vocabularies and terminology -- Technology, applications and security -- Health information systems : collaboration, analysis, design, implementation, operation -- Section IV. Data management and use -- Statistics and data presentation -- Research and epidemiology -- Performance management and patient safety -- Data analytics : reporting, interpretation, and use -- Public health informatics -- Section V. Management -- Privacy and health law -- Human resource management -- Operational management -- Revenue cycle and financial management.

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