Where to Search for Books
- Library Catalog
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- Start Your Research
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- Google Books
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- WorldCat
Indexes items owned by libraries throughout the U.S. and internationally. Items not owned by Texas State may be requestable via interlibrary loan.
eBook Collections
In addition to searching the library catalog for ebooks, you can search the library's ebook collections. Select collections are below. See all the library's ebook collections here.
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Directory of Open Access Books This link opens in a new window
Discover peer-reviewed monographs and collections published under an open access licence. Multiple disciplines and languages are covered.
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IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
Current electrical engineering, electronics and computer science literature, featuring journals & conference proceedings from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) from 1950 to present. Current, archived, and redlined IEEE standards from 1988 to present.
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IET Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Engineering & Technology books offering new perspectives and developments in emerging subject areas like healthcare technologies and cyber security, as well as traditional engineering. 2009 to present.
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IGI Global This link opens in a new windowPeer-reviewed journals and select ebooks focusing on computer science, information science, and information technology. Coverage varies.
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IG Library This link opens in a new window
Practical, concise books on engineering and business topics from Momentum Press and Business Experts Press which summarize information from lengthier scholarly works. 2011-present.
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O'Reilly This link opens in a new window
Skill development and certification guides in a wide range of technology including artificial intelligence, enterprise business applications, game development, mobile applications, operating systems, programming languages, and much more. Current editions.
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SAGE Reference & Academic Books This link opens in a new window
Encyclopedias, handbooks, and ebooks published by Sage and CQ Press. 1983 to present.
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Springer eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
English language books published by Springer, covering a variety of subjects: 2005 to present. Some book series and Lecture Notes: 1995 to 2023.
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Springer eBook Collection - Computer Science This link opens in a new window
Springer computer science books: 2005 to present. Some series (such as Lecture Notes in Computer Science): 1997 to 2023.
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Taylor & Francis eBooks This link opens in a new windowAcademic, science, technology, and medical books from Taylor & Francis and its imprints, CRC Press, Routledge, and Garland.
Core Collection eBook Titles - Health Informatics, Information Management
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Consumer Health Informatics
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"An engaging introduction to an exciting multidisciplinary field where positive impact depends less on technology than on understanding and responding to human motivations, specific information needs, and life constraints." -- Betsy L. Humphreys, former Deputy Director, National Library of Medicine This is a book for people who want to design or promote information technology that helps people be more active and informed participants in their healthcare. Topics include patient portals, wearable devices, apps, websites, smart homes, and online communities focused on health. Consumer Healthcare Informatics: Enabling Digital Health for Everyone educates readers in the core concepts of consumer health informatics: participatory healthcare; health and e-health literacy; user-centered design; information retrieval and trusted information resources; and the ethical dimensions of health information and communication technologies. It presents the current state of knowledge and recent developments in the field of consumer health informatics. The discussions address tailoring information to key user groups, including patients, consumers, caregivers, parents, children and young adults, and older adults. For example, apps are considered as not just a rich consumer technology with the promise of empowered personal data management and connectedness to community and healthcare providers, but also a domain rife with concerns for effectiveness, privacy, and security, requiring both designer and user to engage in critical thinking around their choices. This book's unique contribution to the field is its focus on the consumer and patient in the context of their everyday life outside the clinical setting. Discussion of tools and technologies is grounded in this perspective and in a context of real-world use and its implications for design. There is an emphasis on empowerment through participatory and people-centered care.
Call Number: R858 .S658 2021 E-bookISBN: 9780429808890Publication Date: 2020-12-13 -
HIMSS dictionary of health information and technology terms, acronyms and organizations
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Call Number: R858 E-bookISBN: 9781040043684Publication Date: 2024 -
Making a difference : careers in health informatics
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Making a Difference: Careers in Health Informatics addresses everyday questions from people interested in working in health informatics. Typically, this includes people who work in health care, computer and technology fields, information science, finance / insurance and related areas. The book aims to tell students about various jobs that exist in the health informatics field, what credentials they need to qualify for those jobs, and a brief description about what people in those roles tend to do every day. As faculty members teaching in a Master of Science in Health Informatics program, the authors say that they are fortunate to have eager, bright, and talented graduate students who are invested in related health informatics areas. This could be their experiences in medicine, nursing, clinical care, software engineering, finance, business, library science, data science, or caregiving. Common questions we hear from our students that may be similar to questions among readers include: what jobs are out there?', what can I do with this degree?' or what does a health informatics specialist do?' This book aims to answer some of these questions with a look into a day in the life of people working in this field. The book examines career options, roles, and skill sets important in health informatics across 6 related industries. We want readers to realize that their skills and interests can apply in many areas of the field, not exclusively hospitals. This book highlights 6 unique work segments (hospital systems, long term care, health IT / consumer health organizations, government, consulting, and payer / insurance companies) into which readers may look to expand their career opportunities. The hope is that this book will provide insight into career opportunities students and professionals may be qualified for, and interested in, but simply not aware of. Hiring managers and human resource professionals across the stakeholder groups across the stakeholder groups may also find the book helpful in learning about other roles that may benefit their organizations
Call Number: R858 E-bookISBN: 9781003185727Publication Date: 2023 -
Medicine Without Meds
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How digital therapies can transform your health. Traditional health care has a new ally. Some patients with sleep disorders, back pain, and diabetes are now being prescribed app-based treatment instead of drugs. Algorithms are helping cancer patients manage their symptoms, and video games are improving the attention span of children diagnosed with ADHD. A new class of medicine called digital therapeutics (DTx) is gaining traction and transforming the way patients engage with the health care system. In Medicine without Meds, Dean Ho, Yoann Sapanel, and Agata Blasiak explore the exciting potential for these digital therapies to transform patient care. Ho, Sapanel, and Blasiak share their insights on how these therapies can deliver value beyond the technology, address the challenges of implementation in existing health care models, and revolutionize care delivery. These clinicians, researchers, engineers, patients, start-up founders, and corporate executives are at the forefront of designing and building tomorrow's DTx. They explain what DTx represents, how it differs from other digital health solutions, and how these tools can be conceptualized, created, and brought to market. Throughout, case studies from leading DTx organization such as Akili Interactive, MedRhythms, and Welldoc illuminate best practices in product development, issues to consider, and pitfalls to avoid. These essays, along with a foreword by D. A. Wallach and Dr. Eddie Martucci's outlook on the future of DTx, present the exciting potential for DTx to reimagine health care for all.
Call Number: RM111 .H6 2023 E-bookISBN: 9781421447049Publication Date: 2023-10-17 -
Value of information for healthcare decision making
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Call Number: R723.5 .V35 2024 E-bookISBN: 9781003156109Publication Date: 2024 -
A Virtual Care Blueprint
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The Covid-19 pandemic prompted healthcare systems around the globe to quickly explore and subsequently adopt digital health technologies and virtual care models that had been slowly growing in mainstream acceptance throughout the decade prior. In particular, telemedicine use skyrocketed as healthcare organizations and governments needed to provide access to infection risk-free health services. Telemedicine has been around in its current form for nearly two decades but grew significantly in utilization after the rapid acceleration of internet and smartphone adoption in the 2010s, and again in 2020 due to Covid-19. Beyond traditional audio-visual telemedicine modalities, newer, more advanced models of tech-enabled clinical services have begun to gain popularity. Fueled by ubiquitous modern telecommunication technologies (e.g., the Smartphone), a growing dissatisfaction with healthcare services among patients, and increasing chronic disease epidemics in developed countries, models like remote patient monitoring (RPM) and other hybrid virtual care models have entered the clinical toolbox. RPM-based care models can fill the gaps of transactional telemedicine in order to deliver longitudinal care appropriate for patients with chronic conditions. Despite the apparent recent acceleration of interest in and adoption of RPM-based virtual care models, substantial research exists on RPM covering patient reported outcomes, clinical effectiveness, and economic factors. In A Virtual Care Blueprint: How Digital Health Technologies Can Improve Health Outcomes, Patient Experience, and Cost-Effectiveness, Robert L. Longyear III explores the science, frontline clinical perspectives, and potential impact of RPM-based virtual care programs. Seeking to provide evidence-based information on RPM and virtual care in a market flooded with marketing materials, Longyear provides healthcare leaders, clinicians, and policymakers a clear outline of these increasingly important care models for a modern healthcare delivery system.
Call Number: R119.9 .L66 2021 E-bookISBN: 9781000417296Publication Date: 2021-09-22 -
Comprehensive accreditation manual : CAMH for hospitals effective January 1, 2025 : PDF manual
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The 2025 Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals (CAMH) features the official Joint Commission standards, elements of performance (EPs), National Patient Safety Goals, and other accreditation requirements, including those for Primary Care Medical Home certification. It is organized as follows: Accreditation requirements, including ALL standards, EPs, National Patient Safety Goals, and Accreditation Participation Requirements; Accreditation process information about Joint Commission policies and procedures and practical survey preparation information on the Early Survey Policy, documentation requirements, standards applicability, and more. The CAMH also features icons to help navigate documentation requirements and risk areas, integrated regulatory requirements for deemed status, and a "What's New" summary of changes made since the previous edition. Please note: This e-book is a digital version of the 2025 CAMH, effective January 1, 2025. It will not be updated throughout 2025.
ISBN: 9781635854053Publication Date: 2025
Core Collection eBook Titles - Systems, Technology, Data Security
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Artificial intelligence and cybersecurity in healthcare
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Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity in Healthcare provides a crucial exploration of AI and cybersecurity within healthcare Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), offering insights into the complex technological landscape shaping modern patient care and data protection. As technology advances, healthcare has transformed, particularly through the implementation of CPS that integrate the digital and physical worlds, enhancing system efficiency and effectiveness. This increased reliance on technology raises significant security concerns. The book addresses the integration of AI and cybersecurity in healthcare CPS, detailing technological advancements, applications, and the challenges they present. AI applications in healthcare CPS include remote patient monitoring, AI chatbots for patient assistance, and biometric authentication for data security. AI not only improves patient care and clinical decision-making by analyzing extensive data and optimizing treatment plans, but also enhances CPS security by detecting and responding to cyber threats. Nonetheless, AI systems are susceptible to attacks, emphasizing the need for robust cybersecurity. Significant issues include the privacy and security of sensitive healthcare data, potential identity theft, and medical fraud from data breaches, alongside ethical concerns such as algorithmic bias. As the healthcare industry becomes increasingly digital and data-driven, integrating AI and cybersecurity measures into CPS is essential. This requires collaboration among healthcare providers, tech vendors, regulatory bodies, and cybersecurity experts to develop best practices and standards. This book aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of AI, cybersecurity, and healthcare CPS. It explores technologies like augmented reality, blockchain, and the Internet of Things, addressing associated challenges like cybersecurity threats and ethical dilemmas
Call Number: R859.7.A78 A78 2025 E-bookISBN: 9781394229826Publication Date: 2025 -
Artificial intelligence in healthcare : recent applications and developments
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Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have witnessed many successes in various disciplines including the healthcare sector. Innovations in intelligent medical systems have revolutionized the way in which healthcare services are provided, ranging from making clinical diagnosis, developing personalized treatment and drugs, assisting patient monitoring, to automating administrative tasks and reducing operational costs. In this book, the authors present key applications in the general area of health care, where AI has made significant successes. From the individual chapters, the readers will be provided with a range of examples to illustrate the wide plethora of application domains utilizing state-of-the-art AI techniques, proving credence to the versatility and effectiveness of an AI approach in health care and medicine. We envisage that this book is ideal for individuals new to the notion of AI in health care, equally, early career academics who wish to further expand on their knowledge in AI in medicine. What will be presented is in no means an exhaustive list of applications, but most definitely a varied one
Call Number: R859.7.A78 E-bookISBN: 9811952728Publication Date: 2022 -
Digital health : a primer
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Healthcare systems globally are grappling with how best to implement effective and efficient patient-centered care while simultaneously trying to contain runaway costs and provide high quality. This book explores the essential enabling role of digital health, taking a socio-technical perspective and looking at the key facets of technology, people and process in turn. It examines the opportunities of key digital health components, demystifying digital health and demonstrating how to use its key precepts effectively. The book presents evidence and anecdotes from stakeholders around the world demonstrating the global relevance and the ability of digital health to uplift and upskill care delivery as it is applied commercially. Bridging academic theory and practice, this is a functional and accessible text for all digital health stakeholders. The text introduces critical issues and is suitable reading for students, practitioners and researchers in digital health and all healthcare related domains
Call Number: R855.3 E-bookISBN: 9781040008485Publication Date: 2024 -
Ensuring the Integrity of Electronic Health Records
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Data integrity is a critical aspect to the design, implementation, and usage of any system which stores, processes, or retrieves data. The overall intent of any data integrity technique is the same: ensure data is recorded exactly as intended and, upon later retrieval, ensure the data is the same as it was when originally recorded. Any alternation to the data is then traced to the person who made the modification. The integrity of data in a patient's electronic health record is critical to ensuring the safety of the patient. This book is relevant to production systems and quality control systems associated with the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and medical device products and updates the practical information to enable better understanding of the controls applicable to e-records. The book highlights the e-records suitability implementation and associated risk-assessed controls, and e-records handling. The book also provides updated regulatory standards from global regulatory organizations such as MHRA, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (UK); FDA, Food and Drug Administration (US); National Medical Products Association (China); TGA, Therapeutic Goods Administration (Australia); SIMGP, Russia State Institute of Medicines and Good Practices; and the World Health Organization, to name a few.
Call Number: R864 .L67 2021 E-bookISBN: 9781000223033Publication Date: 2020-12-21 -
Healthcare analytics and advanced computational intelligence
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Call Number: R858 .H368 2025 E-bookISBN: 9781032624891Publication Date: 2024 -
Health information systems : technological and management perspectives
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Call Number: R858 E-bookISBN: 9783031123108Publication Date: 2023 -
ICD-10-CM 2020 : the complete official codebook
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Call Number: RB115 .I23 2019 E-bookISBN: 9781622029242Publication Date: 2019 -
Reconnoitering the landscape of edge intelligence in healthcare
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The revolution in healthcare as well as demand for efficient real-time healthcare services are driving the progression of edge computing, AI-mediated techniques, deep learning, and IoT applications for healthcare industries and cloud computing. Edge computing helps to meet the demand for newer and more sophisticated healthcare systems that are more personalized and that match the speed of modern life. With applications of edge computing, automated intelligence and intuitions are incorporated into existing healthcare analysis tools for identifying, forecasting, and preventing high-risk diseases. Reconnoitering the Landscape of Edge Intelligence in Healthcare provides comprehensive research on edge intelligence technology with the emphasis on application in the healthcare industry. It covers all the various areas of edge intelligence for data analysis in healthcare, looking at the emerging technologies such as AI-based techniques, machine learning, IoT, cloud computing, and deep learning with illustrations of the design, implementation, and management of smart and intelligent healthcare systems. Chapters showcase the advantages and highlights of the adoption of the intelligent edge models toward smart healthcare infrastructure. The book also addresses the increased need for a high level of medical data security while transferring real-time data to cloud-based architecture, a matter of prime concern for both patient and doctor. Topics include edge intelligence for wearable sensor technologies and their applications for health monitoring, the various edge computing techniques for disease prediction, e-health services and e-security solutions through IoT devices that aim to improve the quality of care for transgender patients, smart technology in ambient assisted living, the role of edge intelligence in limiting virus spread during pandemics, neuroscience in decoding and analysis of visual perception from the neural patterns and visual image reconstruction, and more. The technology addressed include energy aware cross-layer routing protocol (ECRP), OMKELM-IDS technique, graphical user interface (GUI), IOST (an ultra-fast, decentralized blockchain platform), etc. This volume will be helpful to engineering students, research scholars, and manufacturing industry professionals in the fields of engineering applications initiatives on AI, machine learning, and deep learning techniques for edge computing.
Call Number: RA971.6 .R43 2024 E-bookISBN: 9781003401841Publication Date: 2024 -
Research handbook on health information systems
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Call Number: R858 .R47 2025 E-bookISBN: 9781802201307Publication Date: 2025
Core Collection Print Book Titles - Various HIIM topics
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Fundamentals of Law for Health Informatics and Information Management
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Call Number: KF3827.R4 F86 2017ISBN: 9781584265306Publication Date: 2017-01-01 -
Healthcare code sets, clinical terminologies, and classification systems byCall Number: RB115 .H43 2019Publication Date: 2019
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Health Information Management
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Call Number: RA976 .H395 2020ISBN: 9781584267256Publication Date: 2020-01-01 -
Introduction to Healthcare Informatics
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Call Number: R858 .F48 2017ISBN: 9781584265283Publication Date: 2017-01-01 -
Introduction to Health Information Privacy and Security
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Call Number: KF3827.R4 R56 2018ISBN: 9781584265887Publication Date: 2018-01-01 -
Introduction to Information Systems for Health Information Technology, Fourth Edition
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Call Number: RT50.5 .S395 2021ISBN: 9781584267423Publication Date: 2020-10-05 -
Principles of Healthcare Reimbursement, Seventh Edition
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Call Number: HG9396 .C378 2021ISBN: 9781584268000Publication Date: 2020-03-31
| ILL - Scan Request - TexShare
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Interlibrary Loan (ILL)ILL is a free library lending service available to current TxState students and employees. ILL borrows items from other libraries that the Alkek Library does not own. Use ILLIAD, the online interlibrary loan request system, to order your ILL items. Typical turnaround for a book is 1-2 weeks and must be picked up at and returned to the library. Articles are sent to requestors via email.
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