Cognitive Informatics in Health and Medicine (Book Series - Springer Nature)


Editor: Vimla L. Patel, New York Academy of Medicine and Columbia University

Enormous advances in information technology have permeated essentially all facets of life. Although these technologies are transforming the workplace as well as leisure time, formidable challenges remain in fostering tools that enhance productivity, are sensitive to work practices, and are intuitive to learn and to use effectively. Informatics is a discipline concerned with applied and basic science of information, the practices involved in information processing, and the engineering of information systems. Cognitive Informatics [CI], a term that has been adopted and applied particularly in the fields of biomedicine and health care, is the multidisciplinary study of cognition, information, and computational sciences. It investigates all facets of computer applications in biomedicine and health care, including system design and computer-mediated intelligent action.

The basic scientific discipline of CI is strongly grounded in methods and theories derived from cognitive science. The discipline provides a framework for the analysis and modeling of complex human performance in technology-mediated settings and contributes to the design and development of better information systems for biomedicine and health care. Despite the significant growth of this discipline, there have been no systematic published volumes for reference or instruction, intended for working professionals, scientists, or graduate students in cognitive science and biomedical informatics, except those published by the editor of this series, Dr. Vimla Patel. Although information technologies are now in widespread use throughout the world, for promoting increased self-reliance in patients, there is often a disparity between the scientific and technological knowledge underlying healthcare practices and the lay beliefs, mental models, and cognitive representations of illness and disease. The topics covered in this book series address the key research gaps in biomedical informatics related to the applicability of theories, models, and evaluation frameworks of HCI and human factors as they apply to clinicians as well as the to lay public.

 



Previous and Forthcoming Books in Series:

Cognitive Informatics in Health and Biomedicine:
Case Studies on Critial Care, Complexity and Errors (2014)
Vimla L. Patel, David R. Kaufman, Trevor Cohen

Cognitive Informatics for Biomedicine:
Human Computer Interaction in Healthcare (2015)
Vimla L. Patel, Thomas G. Kannampallil, David R. Kaufman

Cognitive Informatics in Health and Biomedicine:
Understanding and Modeling Health Behaviors (2017)
Vimla L. Patel, Jose F. Arocha, Jessica Ancker

Cognitive Informatics:
Reengineering Clinical Workflow for Safer and More Efficient Care (2019)
Kai Zheng, Johanna Westbrook, Thomas G. Kannampallil, Vimla L. Patel

Personal Health Informatics:
Patient Participation in Precision Health
Pei-Yun Sabrina Hsueh, XinXin Katie Zhu, Thomas Wetter

Intelligent Systems in Medicine and Health:
The Role of AI (2022)
Trevor A. Cohen, Vimla L. Patel, Edward H. Shortliffe

Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine:
A Practical Guide
(Publication Expected early 2024)
Hua Xu amd Dima Demner-Fushman

Human Computer Interaction in Healthcare:
The Role of Cognition
(Second Edition, November 2024)
Andre W. Kushniruk, David R. Kaufman, Thomas G. Kannampallil, Vimla L. Patel