mHealth
AbstractMy mentor, Dr. Hiram Curry, used to caution his residents that they would see patients for a few minutes every so often and think that what they did in those few brief encounters would make all...
View ArticlePre-FHIR Interoperability and Decision Support Standards
AbstractIn the last chapter, we looked at the evolution of standards and examined the key health data standards. For use in actual patient care standardized clinical data, typically along with other...
View ArticleFHIR Applications in Payment
AbstractToday, the interaction between health care providers and payers is often manual, error prone and retrospective when it could be done more automatically and accurately in real time. It is often...
View ArticleThe Empowered Patient
AbstractPatient facing health informatics is an increasingly rich and interesting field, particularly because many people now use smartphone apps, wearable and other sensors and mobile devices to...
View ArticleThe US Health Care System
AbstractThis chapter briefly describes the US health care system and some of the most important of its many problems, many of which are shared by health systems around the world. This is a complex...
View ArticlePublic and Population Health
AbstractIn the clinical setting, the focus is on individual patients after they become sick or injured. In contrast, public and population health focus on groups of patients or the public at large....
View ArticleA Brief History and Overview of Health Informatics
AbstractThis first chapter provides a brief history of some, but certainly not all, of the key subdomains within the health informatics field and further explains the potential significance of the FHIR...
View ArticleThe US Healthcare System
AbstractThis chapter briefly describes the US healthcare system and some of the most important of its many problems. This is a complex topic that I cannot adequately cover in a short, introductory...
View ArticleCorrection to: Public and Population Health
Chapter 12 in: Mark L. Braunstein, Health Informatics on FHIR: How HL7's API is Transforming Healthcare
View Article