Coming soon in 2024
The “Textbook of Digital Health” by Dr Chris Paton is a new, up-to-date textbook suitable for students, researchers, and practitioners in the field of digital health and biomedical informatics. It has been designed to meet the needs of postgraduate students on digital health or health informatics courses and for undergraduate clinical students in medicine, nursing, pharmacy and allied health courses studying digital health.
The first half of the book introduces readers to the key concepts and ideas involved in the digital transformation of healthcare systems. It describes the range of health information systems and technologies in use today and how they communicate and share data using interoperability standards such as HL7 FHIR and SNOMED-CT. The second half of the book focuses on how digital health systems are designed and implemented. It introduces the concept of “Human-Centered Design” and describes how governments and regulatory organisations assess digital health technologies for usability, safety and clinical effectiveness.
The book’s author, Dr Chris Paton, is a medical academic working in the field of Digital Health and Clinical Informatics. He conducts digital health research for the Health Systems Collaborative at the University of Oxford and is the course director for a new online, Postgraduate Digital Health distance-learning course for the University of Otago. He has authored over 80 peer-reviewed publications and regularly gives talks and presentations at international digital health and informatics conferences. Dr Paton is also the founder of the Health Informatics Forum, he chairs the International Medical Informatics Association Open Source working group, and he is on the Editorial Board of three digital health journals.
