Health Informatics on FHIR: How HL7's New API is Transforming Healthcare
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Dr. Mark Braunstein's latest book is a "must read" for any serious student of biomedical informatics. It is an essential foundation text suitable for an introductory course. Dr. Braunstein doesn't just talk about a technical standard; he talks about why standards are so essential in to a field heavily focused on data science. Dr. Braunstein places technology in the context of the broader healthcare system, contemporary challenges, and important historical developments in the field. Taking a "real world" approach, Braunstein gives clinical readers an appreciation of technology and gives technical readers an understanding of the importance of their work. The book is an easy read; clinicians and administrators can quickly gain a deeper technical understanding of vital technology issues. This is an essential read for any student or teacher in the field. (Mark Frisse, MD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, USA)
This is a great book lots of history to put things in perspective, lots of high-level examples to show how FHIR fits into all this and lots of examples of what is under the hood to make it all work. As I start to develop applications in the FHIR environment, this book well be a very valuable tutorial to help me get started. (James Cimino, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA)
About the Author
Mark Braunstein, MD, an author and thought-leader in the field, teaches health informatics in the School of Interactive Computing of the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. After a successful career as a health IT entrepreneur, he joined Georgia Tech in 2007 as a Professor of the Practice. He developed the first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in the field and his unique health informatics graduate seminar was the first to be centered on HL7s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) standard. In it, student teams work with domain experts to solve problems that often involve analytics.
He will be a visiting professor at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia the second half of this year to create a similar educational program there. Previously he wrote Practitioners Guide to Health Informatics (Springer 2015) and Contemporary Health Informatics (AMIA 2014).
Dr. Braunstein is actively involved with HL7s development of the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) standard and in efforts at the CDC to use FHIR as a universal platform for public health surveillance. He is also collaborating with Open mHealth to bring their schema for representing data from patient operated apps and devices into the FHIR standard.
He earned a BS from MIT in 1969, an MD from the Medical University of South Carolina in 1974 and served as a resident at Washington University.
He was a 1996 Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the Southeast Region, received a 1995 Innovation in Medical Management Award from the American Society of Physician Executives and received the 2006 Founders Award from the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce, Southeast Region. In 2013 he was honored as a Distinguished Alumnus by MUSCs College of Medicine.
He will be a visiting professor at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia the second half of this year to create a similar educational program there. Previously he wrote Practitioners Guide to Health Informatics (Springer 2015) and Contemporary Health Informatics (AMIA 2014).
Dr. Braunstein is actively involved with HL7s development of the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) standard and in efforts at the CDC to use FHIR as a universal platform for public health surveillance. He is also collaborating with Open mHealth to bring their schema for representing data from patient operated apps and devices into the FHIR standard.
He earned a BS from MIT in 1969, an MD from the Medical University of South Carolina in 1974 and served as a resident at Washington University.
He was a 1996 Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the Southeast Region, received a 1995 Innovation in Medical Management Award from the American Society of Physician Executives and received the 2006 Founders Award from the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce, Southeast Region. In 2013 he was honored as a Distinguished Alumnus by MUSCs College of Medicine.
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