Lyn Robinson 
Understanding Healthcare Information [PDF ebook] 

Introduction

• The healthcare information audience


• Information science and domain analysis


• Outline of the book


• References


• Further reading


• Our website

1. The healthcare information domain

• Introduction


• Nature of the discipline


• Nature of healthcare knowledge


• Structures and institutions


• Drivers for change


• Conclusion


• References


• Further reading

2. History of healthcare and its information environment

• Introduction


• The ancient world


• The classical world


• The medieval world


• Renaissance and Enlightenment


• The 19th century to the present day


• Conclusion


• References


• Further reading

3. Producers and users of healthcare information

• Introduction


• Producers of healthcare information


• Users of healthcare information


• Conclusions


• References


• Further reading

4. Healthcare information organization

• Introduction


• Organizing healthcare information: overview


• Dictionaries and glossaries


• Classifications and taxonomies


• Subject headings and thesauri


• Meta-vocabularies


• Abstracting and indexing of healthcare information


• Conclusion


• References


• Further reading

5. Healthcare information sources, services and retrieval

• Introduction


• Primary sources


• Secondary sources


• Tertiary sources


• Quaternary sources


• Conclusion


• References


• Further reading

6. Healthcare information and knowledge management

• Introduction


• Healthcare libraries and information services


• Managing healthcare information


• Providing healthcare information


• Standards, evaluation and impact


• Conclusion


• References


• Further reading

Afterword

• Keeping up to date

Lyn Robinson is Programme Director for Library and Information Science at City University London. She is author of numerous papers and published presentations, and has written two books, including Facet’s Introduction to Information Science