The purpose of the Handbook is to provide systematic overview of medical and health informatics for health care professionals and for students in medicine and h

Health care professionals continue to increase the use of computers to support patient care, assess the quality of care, and enhance decision making, management

Provides coverage of specific topics and issues in healthcare, highlighting recent trends and describing the latest advances in the field.

The Handbook of Evaluation Methods for Health Informatics provides a complete compendium of methods for evaluation of IT-based systems and solutions within heal

Currently, informatics within the field of public health is a developing and growing industry. Clinical informatics are used in direct patient care by supplying