Full Description
Oncology Informatics: Using Health Information Technology to Improve Processes and Outcomes in Cancer Care encapsulates National Cancer Institute-collected evidence into a format that is optimally useful for hospital planners, physicians, researcher, and informaticians alike as they collectively strive to accelerate progress against cancer using informatics tools.
This book is a formational guide for turning clinical systems into engines of discovery as well as a translational guide for moving evidence into practice. It meets recommendations from the National Academies of Science to "reorient the research portfolio" toward providing greater "cognitive support for physicians, patients, and their caregivers" to "improve patient outcomes." Data from systems studies have suggested that oncology and primary care systems are prone to errors of omission, which can lead to fatal consequences downstream. By infusing the best science across disciplines, this book creates new environments of "Smart and Connected Health."
Oncology Informatics is also a policy guide in an era of extensive reform in healthcare settings, including new incentives for healthcare providers to demonstrate "meaningful use" of these technologies to improve system safety, engage patients, ensure continuity of care, enable population health, and protect privacy. Oncology Informatics acknowledges this extraordinary turn of events and offers practical guidance for meeting meaningful use requirements in the service of improved cancer care.
Anyone who wishes to take full advantage of the health information revolution in oncology to accelerate successes against cancer will find the information in this book valuable.
Contents
I. An Extraordinary Opportunity1. Creating a Learning Health Care System in Oncology2. Reducing Cancer Disparities Through Community Engagement: The Promise of Informatics3. Cancer Clinical Research: Enhancing Data Liquidity and Data Altruism4. Engaging Patients in Primary and Specialty Care5. Coordination at the Point of Need
II. Support across the Continuum6. Prevention, Information Technology, and Cancer7. Early Detection In The Age of Information Technology8. Informatics Support Across the Cancer Continuum: Treatment9. Survivorship10. Advanced Cancer: Palliative, End of Life, and Bereavement Care
III. Science of Oncology Informatics11. Data Visualization Tools for Investigating Health Services Utilization Among Cancer Patients12. Oncology Informatics: Behavioral and Psychological Sciences13. Communication Science: Connecting Systems for Health14. Cancer Surveillance Informatics15. Extended Vision for Oncology: A Perceptual Science Perspective on Data Visualization and Medical Imaging
IV. Accelerating Progress16. Crowdsourcing Advancements in Health Care Research: Applications for Cancer Treatment Discoveries17. Patient-Centered Approaches to Improving Clinical Trials for Cancer18. A New Era of Clinical Research Methods in a Data-rich Environment19. Creating a Health Information Technology Infrastructure to Support Comparative Effectiveness Research in Cancer20. Editors' Conclusion: Building for Change
