Thursday, April 1, 2010

Featured Book - Introduction to Computer Systems for Health Information Technology


The featured book from the current Library New Book List is Introduction to Computer Systems for Health Information Technology by Nanette B. Sayles and Kathy C. Trawick.

"The authors are Health Information Management veterans active in today's classrooms. They sought to create the ideal book for their own courses, resulting in a text that not only covers all the information systems material required by CAHIIM domains, subdomains, and tasks, it also incorporates all model curriculum topics for the HIM associate's degree." - back cover.

Kathy C. Trawick, EdD, RHIA, is the chair and associate professor of the Health Information Management Department in the College of Health Related Professions at UAMS. In addition to her 10 years in academics, Dr. Trawick has profound HIM practitioner experience in acute care facilities, serves as a consultant to health care facilities, holds offices at the state level in HIM and Cancer Registry associations, and currently serves on the CAHIIM Panel of Reviewers for HIT/HIA program accreditation.

W 26.55.C7 Sa99i 2010
Introduction to Computer Systems for Health Information Technology/ by Nanette B. Sayles and Kathy C. Trawick
Chicago, IL : American Health Information Management Association, 2010.