ESSENTIALS OF HEALTH INFORMATION AND DATA MANAGEMENT

Healthcare is going through the rapid digital transformation leading to transformation in
how configuring, managing, sharing, and analyzing patient information. With the adoption
of electronic health records, data analytics, telehealth, and artificial intelligence around the
world, Health Information Management (HIM) has branched out even further from its
traditional domains. HIM professionals today play a pivotal role in some the most complex
technologies, standards, policies, and ethics issues that need to be addressed while allowing
the health information to flow accurately, securely, and accessible.
Essentials of Health Information and Data Management has been created as a solid and
up-to-date resource available for use by students, practitioners, and educators that will
provide these individuals with necessary fundamentals in this changing field.
It combines the essentials, with practical frameworks and emerging innovations in a
structured, eyebrow-raising easy to digest format. This anthology of chapters covers the
basic topics, such as health information systems, medical records and standards of the data,
to the higher level topics, such as analytics, artificial intelligence, digital health
transformation and national health information infrastructures. It captures the world and
national issues like global or national updates on interoperability standards, cloud, cyber
security and India Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM).
One of the most unique features of this book is its combination of technology, governance,
and practice, so that readers understand not just what HIM is, but why it is important and
how it is done in practice among healthcare sectors. Several chapters correlate technical
elements and their actual influences on the institution of quality care and patient safety,
administrative efficiency, and ethical decision-making. By using case examples,
conceptual explanations, and forward-looking discussions, learners work respectively to
prepare for the challenges they face in real-world healthcare environments.