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As healthcare delivery is largely dependent on an exchange of information between both the patient and the healthcare professional and among the healthcare professionals themselves, health informatics has emerged as a growing field of study. This chapter provides an overview of health informatics, how technology can enhance healthcare quality and quality measurement, the possibilities afforded by big data aggregation, and how to reduce and manage the unintended consequences technology can have on healthcare practices.

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  1. Nemours Children’s Health System, Wilmington, DE, USA

    David W. West

  2. Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Angelo P. Giardino

  2. Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Lee Ann Riesenberg

  3. Northeast Medical Group, Yale New Haven Health, Stratford, CT, USA

    Prathibha Varkey

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West, D.W. (2021). Health Informatics. In: Giardino, A., Riesenberg, L., Varkey, P. (eds) Medical Quality Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48080-6_5

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