Cognitive Informatics: Reengineering Clinical Workflow for Safer and More Efficient Care
暫譯: 認知資訊學：重新設計臨床工作流程以實現更安全和更高效的護理

這本及時的書籍針對健康資訊科技（IT）如何影響臨床工作流程的理解缺口進行探討，以及這些工作流程的有效實施如何對安全和有效的病患照護至關重要。書中包含結構清晰的章節，涵蓋多個主題，包括與臨床工作流程相關的實務者和病患的各個面向、記錄臨床工作流程數據的工具，以及潛在重新設計健康 IT 支援的照護協調的技術。

《認知資訊學：重新設計臨床工作流程以實現更高效和更安全的照護》使讀者能夠深入理解臨床工作流程，以及如何潛在地修改這些流程以促進照護提供的更高效率和安全性，為生物醫學和健康資訊學的專業人士及受訓者提供了寶貴的資源。

Kai Zheng, PhD, is Associate Professor of Informatics and Associate Adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, Irvine. He also directs the Center for Biomedical Informatics at the UC Irvine Institute for Clinical and Translational Science. Prior to joining UC Irvine, he was Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy in the School of Public Health and Associate Professor of Information in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. He was Director of University of Michigan's Health Informatics Program preparing students for careers that will harness the power of information to enhance health and transform individual health and healthcare. Zheng's research draws upon techniques from the fields of information systems and human-computer interaction to study the use of information, communication, and decision technologies in patient care delivery and management. His recent work has focused on topics such as interaction design, workflow and sociotechnical integration, and diffusion and evaluation of health IT. Zheng received his PhD degree in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University. He is the recipient of the 2011 American Medical Informatics Association New Investigator Award that recognizes early informatics contributions and significant scholarly achievements. He is an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.

Johanna Westbrook, PhD is Professor of Health Informatics and Director of the Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University. She is internationally recognised for her research evaluating the effects of information and communication technology (ICT) in health care. Johanna has led important research in the development and application of approaches to evaluate ICT, including new tools and methods which have been adopted internationally. This work has included the development of the Work Observation Method by Activity Timing (WOMBAT) software to support the conduct of observational workflow studies.
Johanna is an elected International Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Informatics, and has been an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. In 2014 she was named Australian ICT professional of the year by the Australian Information Industry Association. In 2016 she was appointed to the Board of the Australian Digital Health Agency. She is Chair of the Deeble Institute Advisory Board, Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association, and a member of the Boards of the Sax Institute and the International Medical Informatics Association.

Thomas Kannampallil, PhD is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Associate Chief Research Information Officer at the Institute for Informatics at the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis. His research is at the cross-section of human computer interaction, cognitive models of clinical decision-making, and clinical workflows using quantitative approaches. He was previously at the University of Illinois, the New York Academy of Medicine and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Thomas has extensively published on topics related to sequential models and analysis in a variety of domains including information search, usability and clinical workflow. He has published extensively in all leading informatics journals and is currently funded by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the National Institutes of Health. He is also the recipient of American Medical Informatics Association distinguished paper and reviewer awards.

Vimla L. Patel, PhD, DSc is the Director and Senior Research Scientist at Center for Cognitive Studies in Medicine and Public Health at the New York Academy of Medicine. She is Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Arizona State University, and has adjunct professorial appointments at Columbia University and Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. She acts as a consultant to IBM. Trained as a cognitive scientist at McGill University, she subsequently served there as a Professor of Medicine and of Psychology. She has expertise in using cognitive methods to capture and analyze data to model clinical decision-making and evaluate human-computer interaction in the context of clinical workflow. Her more recent research addresses the nature of complexity in healthcare environment, and the use of appropriate methods of investigation for health IT intervention and patient safety. She is an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Social Sciences), the American College of Medical Informatics, and the New York Academy of Medicine. She is an Associate Editor of Journal of Biomedical Informatics and is on the editorial board of Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, and Advances in Health Science Education.

Kai Zheng, PhD 是加州大學爾灣分校資訊學的副教授及急診醫學的副兼任教授。他同時擔任加州大學爾灣分校臨床與轉化科學研究所生物醫學資訊中心的主任。在加入加州大學爾灣分校之前，他曾擔任密西根大學公共衛生學院健康管理與政策的副教授，以及資訊學院的副教授。他曾擔任密西根大學健康資訊學計畫的主任，培養學生在利用資訊提升健康及轉變個人健康與醫療方面的職業生涯。Zheng 的研究運用資訊系統與人機互動領域的技術，研究在病人護理交付與管理中使用資訊、通信及決策技術。他最近的工作專注於互動設計、工作流程與社會技術整合，以及健康資訊技術的擴散與評估。Zheng 在卡內基梅隆大學獲得資訊系統的博士學位。他是2011年美國醫學資訊協會新研究者獎的得主，該獎項表彰早期的資訊學貢獻及顯著的學術成就。他是美國醫學資訊學會的當選院士。

Johanna Westbrook, PhD 是澳大利亞麥覺理大學醫學與健康科學學院健康資訊學的教授及健康系統與安全研究中心的主任。她因評估資訊與通信技術（ICT）在醫療保健中的影響而享有國際聲譽。Johanna 在開發和應用評估 ICT 的方法方面領導了重要的研究，包括國際採用的新工具和方法。這項工作包括開發工作觀察方法（Work Observation Method by Activity Timing, WOMBAT）軟體，以支持觀察性工作流程研究的進行。

Johanna 是美國醫學資訊學會的當選國際院士，澳大利亞健康資訊學會的院士，並曾擔任美國醫學資訊學會期刊的副編輯。2014年，她被澳大利亞資訊產業協會評選為澳大利亞年度 ICT 專業人士。2016年，她被任命為澳大利亞數位健康機構的董事會成員。她是澳大利亞醫療與醫院協會的 Deeble Institute 諮詢委員會主席，以及 Sax Institute 和國際醫學資訊學會的董事會成員。



Thomas Kannampallil, PhD 是聖路易華盛頓大學醫學院麻醉學系的助理教授及資訊學研究副主任。他的研究位於人機互動、臨床決策的認知模型及臨床工作流程的交叉點，並使用定量方法進行研究。他曾在伊利諾伊大學、紐約醫學院及德克薩斯州大學健康科學中心（休士頓）任職。Thomas 在多個領域的序列模型與分析相關主題上發表了大量文獻，包括資訊搜尋、可用性及臨床工作流程。他在所有主要的資訊學期刊上發表了廣泛的研究，目前獲得了醫療研究與質量機構及國家衛生研究院的資助。他也是美國醫學資訊學會的傑出論文及審稿人獎的得主。

Vimla L. Patel, PhD, DSc 是紐約醫學院認知研究中心的主任及高級研究科學家。她是亞利桑那州立大學生物醫學資訊學的教授，並在哥倫比亞大學及紐約的威爾康奈爾醫學院擔任兼任教授。她擔任 IBM 的顧問。Vimla 在麥吉爾大學接受認知科學的訓練，隨後在該校擔任醫學及心理學的教授。她專長於使用認知方法捕捉和分析數據，以建模臨床決策並評估人機互動在臨床工作流程中的應用。她最近的研究探討了醫療環境中的複雜性本質，以及針對健康資訊技術介入和病人安全的適當調查方法。她是加拿大皇家學會（社會科學院）、美國醫學資訊學會及紐約醫學院的當選院士。她是生物醫學資訊期刊的副編輯，並在醫學人工智慧期刊及健康科學教育進展的編輯委員會中任職。