Behavioral Healthcare Informatics [Hardcover]

Informatics has the potential to transform the world of behavioral practitioners to enable them to assist people more easily. This book focuses on informatics-related topics that all disciplines connected to the behavioral health will find very useful for their day-to-day practice. This book provides an overview of the state of the art in behavioral health care informatics, addresses the challenges on the horizon, such as organizational issues, human-centered issues, educating healthcare executives about technology issues, educating clinicians about behavioral informatics systems, and consumer issues.Behavioral Healthcare Informatics is an essential resource for clinicians, information technology officers, and consumers, as well as students and faculty in psychiatry, psychology, and social work who need to know what is possible today and what lies ahead as technology and behavioral healthcare care converge. Covering a full range of areas from technology infrastructures to organizational issues, this book fills the void this discipline has endured by detailing hoe to improve information systems and facilitate the transformation of data into knowledge, allowing information to be organized and useful.Edited by leaders in the field of managed healthcare, quality improvement, psychiatry, management, and informatics, this book is a ?must read? in the field of health informatics and should be a reference book for any personal, public, or educational library.The book is divided into sections serving as module for the reader. Topics include:- Emerging clinical technologies in psychotherapy and medication and care management- The impact of technology on quality in both public and private sectors- Behavioral health consumerism and the Internet- Organizational aspects of implementing informatics- Managing clinical care in a pervasive computing environmentAbout the Authors:Naakesh A. Dewan, M.D.., is Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor and Executive Director of the Center forlC