This book provides an overview of the state-of-the-art in behavioral healthcare informatics. It also discusses challenges on the horizon, such as organizational issues, human-centered issues, educating healthcare executives about technology issues, educating clinicians about behavioral informatics systems, and consumer issues.

From the Contents: Overview.- Organizational Issues.- Human Centered Issues.- Technology Issues. Introduction.- Clinicians' Issues.- Consumers' Issues. 1=

This book will provide an overview of the state of the art in behavioral health care informatics as well as discussing the challenges on the horizon, such as organizational issues, human-centered issues, educating healthcare executives about technology issues, educating clinicians about behavioral informatics systems, and consumer issues. In addition to significant contributions by the editors, the book will contain contributions from a small number of acknowledged experts within their respective fields.
As daily living becomes more stressful, socio-psychological or behavioral related problems become more intense. Informatics has the potential to transform the world of behavioral practitioners to enable them to assist people more easily. This book will focus on informatics-related topics that all disciplines connected to the behavioral health will find very useful for their day-to-day practice.