Health Informatics

"True wellness innovation requires the recruitment of multi-disciplinary participants. This book breaks the mold with examples from healthcare experts and other professionals who have leveraged informatics to better the lives of their constituents."

? Jason Helgerson, Founder & CEO, Helgerson Solutions Group LLC

Developed for those training in academic centers as well as for those already "out in the field," this book looks at how attorneys, behavioral health experts, business development experts, chief information officers, chief medical officers, chief nursing information officers, consumer advocates, cryptographic experts, futurists, geneticists, informaticists, managed care executives, nurses, pharmacists, physicians, public health professionals, software developers, systems security officers, and workforce experts are collaborating on a "team-based," IT-enabled approach to improve healthcare.

"Dr. Volpe has produced an excellent work in the field of informatics where the intersection of clinical pathways, technology, change management, and psychology cohabitate. Everyone interested in this field should read the appropriate chapters so that they are comfortable with this comprehensive field."

Sam Amifar MD MS ABP-CI,
CMIO CIO The Brooklyn Hospital Center

"This text presents a multi-disciplinary view of health informatics, offering perspectives to help us better understand the successes, challenges, as well as opportunities towards a more equitable healthcare system that prioritizes patient care and public health."

Vibhuti Arya, PharmD, MPH, FAPhA | Curating Brave Spaces
Global Lead, Gender Equity and Diversity Workforce Development
International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP)
Professor, St. John's University

"Health Informatics Multidisciplinary Approaches for Current and Future Professionals is essential reading for policy makers, doctors, administrators and frontline healthcare workers. The book illustrates that deep integration by and between all aspects of care delivery, including IT, employee training and education, finance, and clinical practice will produce improved health outcomes and reduced costs."

John August, Program Director, Partners Program, ILR Scheinman Institute, ILR School, Cornell University

"As health care advances, there is more patient data in different platforms ranging from providers to insurance plans. The need for timely patient data exchange and integration is even more imperative to achieve a holistic picture of the patient from the realms of medical, behavioral health and social determinants of health services. This welcome edition brings together the many disciplines and perspectives to enhance the understanding of the many opportunities that informatics and health IT play towards transforming patient care and population health."

Peggy Chan, MPH ? former NYS DOH DSRIP Director

"This book eclipses many others with the expansiveness of the contributions from so many accomplished authors. The foundation of 21st century healthcare is the use of effective and ethical use of informatics. The space has moved from niche to center stage - it is in this context that the next innovators in technology and patient care will find their opportunity."

Joseph Conte, PhD, CPHQ, Executive Director Staten Island Performing Provider System

"Dr. Volpe has created perhaps the first truly comprehensive book on Health Informatics in print. Its breadth of coverage is truly inspiring. It should become a required text for the rapidly increasing number of online, hybrid and in-person Masters' Degrees programs in Health Informatics becoming available both to recent college graduates and established professionals."

James B. Couch, M.D., J.D., FACPE
Interim Director, M.S. in Health Administration Degree Program
Fordham University

"True wellness innovation requires the recruitment of multi-disciplinary participants. This book breaks the mold with examples from healthcare and other professionals who have leveraged informatics to better the lives of their constituents."

Jason Helgerson, Founder & CEO, Helgerson Solutions Group LLC

"I am saying nothing new when I say, "healthcare is complicated". Dr. Salvatore Volpe has assembled a team of many of America?s best-versed experts from a variety of disciplines and made complex, technical issues of today?s healthcare easy to understand. Not only informative, but a road map for developing best of class healthcare practices. A must read of healthcare leaders, present and future."

Russ Jones
Executive Advisor
Felix Global

"Whether for management of a global pandemic at the population level or treating individual patients in a high stake, fast-paced emergency department, the urgent imperative for better collection, analysis, and availability of actionable health data is abundantly clear. Through this valuable text, Dr. Volpe and his co-authors empower healthcare professionals to be catalysts and leaders equipped to create the robust, reliable, and interoperable health informatics processes and tools so urgently needed by patients, clinicians, and policymakers."

Steven J. Stack, MD, MBA, FACEP

"An interprofessional owner?s manual on Health Informatics for all health care providers! Educators must embrace the notion that the future of health care lies in encouraging technology and innovations and this book will benefit future nursing professionals to be practice ready when they graduate. Just what we need in higher education."

Patricia A. Tooker, RN, DNP
Dean, Evelyn L. Spiro School of Nursing
Wagner College

"Information technology (IT) has revolutionized healthcare over the last decade and promises to transform healthcare for the foreseeable future. How can we harness an IT-enabled approach to address future health care challenges? How can IT be leveraged to prevent the next pandemic and for surveillance of other epidemics? How will IT rectify the inequities already present in the healthcare system? These are the questions at the core of this remarkable book.?Health Informatics?is required reading for anyone who plans on changing the future of healthcare. A must read for everyone!"

Angelo Volandes, MD, President, ACP Decisions; Faculty, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital

Aretha Delight Davis, MD, JD, ACP Decisions, Co-Founder/Chief Executive Officer

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"Dr. Volpe?makes an?inspiring case for combining?the principles of computer?and information science with?life sciences research, health professions, education, public health and patient care by recruiting a broad network of contributors to the field of Health Information Technologies. This book is a mind?expander.?Health Informatics?will make you think differently about the future of healthcare?and how multidisciplinary teams come together to help those in need."

Aiyemobisi Williams, Co-founder, Massive Change Network and Co-host and creator of Health2049, a podcast about the future of health.?

"Advances in health information technology (IT) have impacted the healthcare stakeholders, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. This book is a must-read for healthcare leaders who are helping endorse the development of cutting-edge health IT and integrating it into clinical practice! The book brings into focus strategic health IT opportunities for care improvements, enhancement of preventative care, optimization of patient care quality and outcomes, reduction of cost, and maintenance of provider and patient satisfaction, and more. It is a fantastic resource for current and future healthcare professionals!"

Aleksandra Zagorin, DNP, MA, AGPCNP-BC, RN
Maimonides Medical Center Department of Medicine and Geriatrics
Clinical Advisor and Scholar NYU Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor
Evelyn L. Spiro School of Nursing, Wagner College

"Thank you, Dr. Volpe and co-authors for investing in this multi-disciplinary book that sheds a bright light on the opportunity and challenges of health informatics. Managed care organizations, health care delivery systems and community health workers can all benefit from understanding the new world of shared decision making, digital connection and use of data to drive meaningful insights and findings, while protecting patient privacy and promoting equity."

Susan Beane, MD FACP
Executive Medical Director
Healthfirst Partnerships ? Medical Outcomes

"Dr. Volpe is highly regarded not only for his extensive expertise working at the intersection of clinical care and informatics, but also as a student of the art and science of the field - an expert who readily identifies and learns from the insights of leaders across disciplines who are making change, every day. The result is this uniquely valuable compendium that will serve as the go-to resource for those seeking to understand all aspects health informatics to make care better, more efficient, and more effective."

Amy Boutwell, MD, MPP, Founder and President, Collaborative Healthcare Strategies