This series is directed to healthcare professionals leading the transformation of health care
by using information and knowledge. For over 20 years, Health Informatics has offered a
broad range of titles: some address specific professions such as nursing, medicine, and
health administration; others cover special areas of practice such as trauma and radiology;
still other books in the series focus on interdisciplinary issues, such as the computer-based
patient record, electronic health records, and networked health care systems. Editors and
authors, eminent experts in their fields, offer their accounts of innovations in health infor-
matics. Increasingly, these accounts go beyond hardware and software to address the role
of information in influencing the transformation of healthcare delivery systems around the
world. The series also increasingly focuses on the users of the information and systems:
the organizational, behavioral, and societal changes that accompany the diffusion of infor-
mation technology in health services environments