Contributors include a broad array of notable health professionals, which reinforces the book's focus on interprofessionalism. Woven throughout are the themes of point-of-care applications, data management, and analytics, with an emphasis on the interprofessional team. Additionally, the text fosters an understanding of compensation regulations and factors.

New to the Third Edition:

• Examines current policy initiatives to engage consumers and promote nationwide interoperability of the IT infrastructure
• Emphasizes usability, workflow redesign, and challenges with electronic clinical quality measures
• Covers emerging challenge proposed by CMS to incorporate social determinants of health
• Focuses on data science, secondary data analysis, citizen science, and advanced analytic methods
• Revised chapter on robotics with up-to-date content relating to the impact on nursing practice
• New information on artificial intelligence and ethical considerations
• New case studies and exercises to reinforce learning and specifics for managing public health during and after a pandemic
• COVID-19 pandemic-related lessons learned from data availability, data quality, and data use when trying to predict its impact on the health of communities
• Analytics that focus on health inequity and how to address it
• Expanded and more advanced coverage of interprofessional practice and education (IPE)
• Enhanced instructor package

Key Features:

• Presents national standards and healthcare initiatives as a guiding structure throughout
• Advanced analytics is reflected in several chapters such as cybersecurity, genomics, robotics, and specifically exemplify how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) support related professional practice
• Addresses the new re-envisioned AACN essentials
• Includes chapter objectives, case studies, end-of-chapter exercises, and questions to reinforce understanding
• Aligned with QSEN graduate-level competencies and the expanded TIGER (Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform) competencies.