Guide to Health Informatics

Guide to Health Informatics, 3rd Edition, is a textbook written by Enrico Coiera and published by CRC Press. The volume presents essential concepts of information technologies across healthcare environments, providing foundational material designed to accompany coursework for students of medical informatics.

The text addresses core subjects such as electronic medical records, searching, communication networks, and guideline-based systems. It also introduces clinical decision support methods alongside specialized applications, including consumer health informatics and population surveillance.

Designed as core reading for health science undergraduates, clinical health professionals, and health service managers, this revised 2015 edition explains the role of informatics technologies in clinical practice and health service delivery.