To help clinicians and IT specialists better collaborate, some common background reading might be helpful, says Scot Silverstein, a faculty member at the Institute for Healthcare Informatics at Drexel University. This list includes three of Silverstein’s book recommendations, along with links to the recent Joint Commission and National Research Council reports.
Books
• Medical Informatics 20/20: Quality And Electronic Health Records Through Collaboration, Open Solutions, and Innovation. (Jones & Bartlett Publishers) 2007.
• Managing Technological Change: Organizational Aspects of Health Informatics. (Springer) 2004.
• Understanding and Communicating Social Informatics: A Framework for Studying and Teaching the Human Contexts of Information and Communication Technologies. (Information Today) 2005.
Reports
• The Joint Commission: “Safely implementing health information and converging technologies,” December 2008. www.jointcommission.org/SentinelEvents/SentinelEventAlert/sea_42.htm
• National Research Council: “Computational Technology for Effective Health Care: Immediate Steps and Strategic Directions,” January 2009. www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12572
This article 1st appeared in the March 2009 issue of HHN Magazine.
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