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Provides a broad overview of healthcare information systems with emphasis on historical foundations, current issues, and industry pressures pushing modernization and increased sophistication in the use of technology. Includes major topics such as: an overview of healthcare use of information technology, medical informatics, public health informatics, information technology infrastructure, ethics in computing, computer security, consumer informatics, clinical software, computing in clinical education, research computing, health information exchange, and the future of healthcare computing.