Written by a number of leading experts in the field, this book is a digest of the current important trends in pediatric informatics. It explores how the management of biomedical data, information, and knowledge can optimize and advance child health.

It's a crucial time in pediatric informatics. As technologies advance, it is ever more crucial to keep abreast of developments as they relate to this key area of medical administration. This brilliant book will be essential reading for a whole raft of admin personnel and informaticians. It is a current digest of the important trends in pediatric informatics, written by leading experts in the field. The book explores how the management of biomedical data, information, and knowledge can optimize and advance child health. The contributors investigate the specific importance of pediatric informatics is derived from the biological, psychological, social and cultural needs that the distinguish children from other populations. These distinctions create complexities in the management of pediatric data and information that make children a vulnerable population and require the development of a new body of knowledge in pediatric informatics.

Only book on the market dedicated to pediatric informatics Growing field of interest in informatics Editors have top-notch experience in pediatrics and informatics

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Both authors are pediatricians and informaticians with significant experience and expertise in the field of informatics, and both have trained in informatics through the National Library of Medicine. Dr. Lehmann's expertise resides in the development, application and evaluation of clinical information systems in pediatrics with an emphasis on improving health care quality. He is a faculty member in the Division of Health Information Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Kim's area of expertise lies in ontologies and consumer health informatics. He is also an expert in information retrieval.

Inhalt

Series preface.- Foreword.- Contributors.- Section I. Introduction to pediatric informatics.- 1. Preface: Snapshots of child health and information technology.- 2. Informatics and pediatric healthcare.- Section II. Special considerations in pediatric care.- 3. Core pediatric data.- 4. Neonatal care and data.- 5. Special health information needs of adolescent care.- 6. Children with developmental disorders & other special needs.- 7. Pediatric emergency and critical care considerations.- Section III. The pediatric data-knowledge-care continuum.- 8. Complexity in healthcare information technology systems.- 9. Pediatric care, safety and standardization.- 10. Evidence-based medicine and pediatrics.- 11. Clinical practice guidelines: supporting decisions, optimizing care.- 12. Diagnostic decision support.- 13. Managing pediatric knowledge resources in practice.- 14. Supporting continuing pediatric education and assessment.- Section IV. Informatics and pediatric ambulatory practice.- 15. The Medical Home and the business case for pediatric health IT.- 16. Prioritizing pediatric investment for IT in smaller practices.- 17. Aligning Pediatric Ambulatory Needs with Health IT.- 18. Electronic Health Records and Interoperability for Pediatric Care.- 19. Ambulatory Computerized Provider Order Entry (ACPOE or e-Prescribing).- 20. Telemedicine Applications in Pediatrics.- 21. Personal health records.- 22. Privacy issues.-23. Electronic mail in pediatric practice.- 24. Information management by patients and parents in health and disease.- Section V. Informatics and pediatric inpatient practice.- 25. Overview of inpatient pediatric medication delivery.- 26. Prescribing/Ordering: Computerized Order Entry and Decision Support.- 27. Dispensing: Pharmacy Information Systems.- 28. Medication Administration and Information Technology.- 29. Understanding and preventing errors.- 30. Error Reporting Systems.- Section VI. Frontiers in pediatric informatics.- 31. Health Information Exchange (HIE) in Pediatrics.- 32. Pediatric Data Standards.- 33. The Case for a Pediatric Terminology.- 34. Pediatric Research and Informatics.- Section VII. A vision and current landscape of pediatrics.- 35. Conclusion: The moving picture of pediatric informatics.- 36. Appendix: Resources.