Mental health informatics /Ardis Hanson, Bruce Lubotsky Levin.

Hanson, Ardis.

Mental health informatics /Ardis Hanson, Bruce Lubotsky Levin. - New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

Informatics and public health -- Mental health -- Informatics and mental health -- Data and standards -- Management information systems -- Adoption and implementation of mental health information technology -- Legal and ethical issues in mental health informatics -- Taking research to practice -- Research, professional and educational competencies -- Types of data -- Information retrieval, interfaces, and strategies -- Selected mental health informatics databases -- Globalization of information -- Policy and practice.

Mental Health Informatics offers a comprehensive examination of contemporary issues in mental health that focuses on the innovative use of computers and other information technology in support of patient care, education, services delivery, and research in the field of mental health services. This text deals with resources, devices, and formalized methods for optimizing the storage, retrieval, and management of information for problem solving and decision-making in mental health. Mental health informatics is an interdisciplinary field based upon computer and information sciences, the cognitive.



9780199720330

2012010956


Medical informatics.
Medical care.
Medicine--Data processing.
Mental health services.
Medical Informatics
Mental Health Services


Electronic Books.

R858 / .M468 2013