This timely book addresses gaps in the understanding of how health information technology (IT) impacts on clinical workflows and how the effective implementation of these workflows are central to the safe and effective delivery of care to patients. It features clearly structured chapters covering a range of topics, including aspects of clinical workflows relevant to both practitioners and patients, tools for recording clinical workflow data techniques for potentially redesigning health IT enabled care coordination.

Cognitive Informatics: Reengineering Clinical Workflow for More Efficient and Safer Care enables readers to develop a deeper understanding of clinical workflows and how these can potentially be modified to facilitate greater efficiency and safety in care provision, providing a valuable resource for both biomedical and health informatics professionals and trainees.  

Foreword.- Section I Clinical Workflow and Health Information Technologies.- Chapter 1 Clinical Workflow in the Health IT Era.- Chapter 2 Cognitive Behavior and Clinical Workflows.- Chapter 3 Unintended Adverse Consequences of Health IT Implementation: Workflow Issues and Their Cascading Effects.- Section II The State of the Art of Workflow Research.- Chapter 4 A Review of Clinical Workflow Studies and Methods.- Chapter 5 A Workflow Perspective in Aviation.- Chapter 6 Characterizing Collaborative Workflow and Health Information Technology.- Chapter 7 Interruptions and Multitasking in Clinical Work: A Summary of the Evidence.- Chapter 8 Reengineering Approaches for Learning Health Systems: Applications in Nursing Research to Learn from Safety Information Gaps and Workarounds to Overcome Electronic Health Record Silos.- Chapter 9 Patient-Oriented Workflow Approach.- Chapter 10 Workflow at the Edges of Care.- Section III Research Methods for Studying Clinical Workflow.- Chapter 11 Computer-based Tools for Recording Time and Motion Data for Assessing Clinical Workflow.- Chapter 12 Understanding Clinical Workflow through Direct Continuous Observation: Addressing the Unique Statistical Challenges.- Chapter 13 Clinical Workflow and Human Factors.- Chapter 14 Automated Location Tracking in Clinical Environments: A Review of Systems and Impact on Workflow Analysis.- Section VI Applications and Case Studies.- Chapter 15 Examining the Relationship Between Health IT and Ambulatory Care Workflow Redesign.- Chapter 16 Health IT-Enabled Care Coordination and Redesign in Ambulatory Care.- Chapter 17 Turning “Night into Day”: Challenges, Strategies, and Effectiveness of Re-engineering the Workflow to Enable Continuous Electronic ICU Collaboration between Australia and U.S..- Chapter 18 Encoding Clinical Pathways: A New Gap between Theory and Practice.- Chapter 19 Cognitive Disconnect and Information Overload: Electronic Health Record Use for Rounding and Handover Communications in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.- Chapter 20 Clinical Workflow: The Past, Present, and Future.