Textbook List for Spring 2019

This booklist is for the certificate, masters, and doctoral programs in health informatics.
List is updated as soon as we receive textbook information from instructors. Please check back later for TBD items.

If you have any question about the textbook listed here, please contact the instructor of the course.

 

 

COURSE NO.	COURSE TITLE	INSTRUCTOR	TEXTBOOK
BMI 5004	Intro to Clinical Healthcare	Elmer Bernstam, MD, MSE	No Textbook
BMI 5007	Methods in Health Data Science	Deevakar Rogith, MBBS, PhD	Required Textbooks Miller, B., & Ranum, D. (2011). Problem solving with algorithms and data structures using Python (2nd ed.). Available from http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/pythonds/index.html#  Amazon link  Kowalski, R. (2011). Computational logic and human thinking: How to be artificially intelligent. Cambridge (England): Cambridge University Press. ISBN-10: 0521123364 | ISBN-13: 978-0521123365.  Amazon link
BMI 5300	Introduction to Biomedical Informatics	Kimberly Smith, PhD, MT(ASCP) Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer, PhD	Required Textbook Hoyt, R. E., & Hersh, W. R. (2018). Health Informatics: Practical guide (7th ed.).  Lulu.com  ISBN-13: 978-1387642410 | Edition: 7.  Amazon link  Recommended Textbooks Coiera, E. (2015). Guide to health informatics (3rd ed.). Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis. ISBN-10: 144417049X | ISBN-13: 978-1444170498| Edition: 3. Amazon link  Shortliffe, E. H., & Cimino, J. J. (2014). Biomedical informatics: Computer applications in health care and biomedicine (4th ed.). New York, NY: Springer.  ISBN-10: 1447144732 | ISBN-13: 978-1447144731 | Edition: 4.  Amazon link  Brown, G. D., Patrick, T. B., & Pasupathy, K. (2012). Health Informatics: A Systems Perspective (1st ed.).  Chicago: Health Administration Press.   ISBN-10:  1567934358 |  ISBN-13: 978-1567934359  Amazon link  Gill, C. M. (2014). Essential writing skills for college and beyond.Cincinnati, OH: Writer's Digest Books.  ISBN-10: 1599637596 | ISBN-13: 978-1599637594.  Amazon link
BMI 5301	The U.S. Healthcare System	Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer, PhD	Required Textbook Shi, L., & Singh, D. A. (2017). Essentials of the U.S. healthcare system (5th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.ISBN-10: 9781284156720 | ISBN-13: 978-1284156720 | Edition: 5.   Amazon link
BMI 5302	Introduction to Human Factors in Healthcare	Deevakar Rogith, MBBS, PhD	No Textbook
BMI 5303	Methods if Human Factors	Amy Franklin, PhD	No Textbook
BMI 5305	Legal Ethical Aspects of Health Informatics	Jonathan Ishee, JD, MPH, MS, LLM	Required Textbook McWay, D. C. (2014). Legal and ethical aspects of health information management (4th ed.). Clifton Park, NY: Cengage Learning. ISBN-10: 1285867386 | ISBN-13: 978-1285867380 | Edition: 4. Amazon link Goodman, K. W. (Ed.). (1998). Ethics, computing, and medicine: Informatics and the transformation of health care. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  ISBN-10: 0521469058 | ISBN-13: 978-0521469050.  Amazon link | TMC Library full text link
BMI 5306	Security for Health Information System	Juliana Brixey, PhD, MPH, RN	Required Textbook Pfleeger, C. P., Pfleeger, S. L., & Margulies, J. (2015). Security in computing (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN-10: 0134085043 | ISBN-13: 978-0134085043 | Edition: 5.  Amazon link Rinehart-Thompson, L. A. (2013). Introduction to health informatics privacy and security. Chicago, IL: AHIMA. ISBN-10: 1584263539 | ISBN-13: 978-1584263531. Amazon link
BMI 5310	Foundations of Biomedical Information Sciences I	Kimberly Smith, PhD, MT(ASCP)	Required Textbook Shortliffe, E. H., & Cimino, J. J. (2014). Biomedical informatics: Computer applications in health care and biomedicine (4th ed.). New York, NY: Springer. ISBN-10: 1447144732 | ISBN-13: 978-1447144731 | Edition: 4. Amazon link  Coiera, E. (2015). Guide to health informatics (3rd ed.). Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis  ISBN-10: 144417049X | ISBN-13: 978-1444170498| Edition: 3. Amazon link  Severance, C. (2016). Python for Everybody: Exploring Data in Python 3. Free book downloadable from: https://www.py4e.com/book Recommended Textbooks Gill, C.M. (2014). Essential Writing Skills for College and Beyond. Blue Ash, Ohio: Writer's Digest Books.   ISBN-10: 1599637596 | ISBN-13: 978-1599637594. Amazon link  Terryberry, K. J. (2005). Writing for the health professions (1st. ed.). Cengage Learning. ISBN-10: 1401841929 | ISBN-13: 9781401841928.   Amazon link
BMI 5311	Foundations of Biomedical Information Sciences II	Debora Simmons, PhD, RN, CCNS, FAAN	Required Textbook Shortliffe, E. H., & Cimino, J. J. (2014). Biomedical informatics: Computer applications in health care and biomedicine (4th ed.). New York, NY: Springer. ISBN-10: 1447144732 | ISBN-13: 978-1447144731 | Edition: 4. Amazon link
BMI 5313	Foundations of Electronic Health Records and Clinical Information Systems	Angela Ross, DNP, MPH, PMP, PHCNS-BC	Required Textbook Amatayakul, M. (2012). Electronic health records: A practical guide for professionals and organizations (5th ed.). Chicago, IL: American Health Information Management Association. ISBN-10: 1584260033|ISBN-13: 978-1584260035| Edition: 5. Amazon link | Chegg Link (Book Rental)  Recommended Textbook Hoyt, R. E., & Hersh, W. R. (2018). Health informatics: Practical guide (7th ed.). Lulu.com. ISBN-13: 978-1387642410 Amazon link
BMI 5315	Quality and Outcome Improvement in Healthcare	Debora Simmons, PhD, RN, CCNS, FAAN	Required Textbook Spath, P. L. (2018). Introduction to healthcare quality management (3rd ed.). Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press. ISBN-10: 1567939856 | ISBN-13: 978-1567939859 | Edition: 3. Amazon link
BMI 5317	Applied Data Management	Susan Fenton, PhD, RHIA, FAHIMA	Required Textbook Watson, R.T. (2018). Data Management: Databases and Organizations (6th ed.).  Athens, GA: eGreen Press.ISBN-10: 1943153035 | ISBN-13: 978-1943153039  Amazon link
BMI 5327	Standards in Health Informatics	Julie Brixey, PhD, MPH, RN	Required Textbooks Giannangelo, K. (2015). Healthcare code sets, clinical terminologies, and classification systems (3rd ed.). Chicago, IL: American Health Information Management Association. ISBN-10: 1584261048| ISBN-13: 978-1584261049 | Edition: 3.  Amazon link  Sinha, P. K., Sunder, G., Bendale, P., Mantri, M., & Dande, A. (2013). Electronic health record: Standards, coding systems, frameworks, and infrastructure. Hoboken, NJ:John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN-10: 1118281349 | ISBN-13: 978-1118281345. Amazon link
BMI 5328	Systems Analysis and Project Management	Angela Ross, DNP, MPH, PMP, PHCNS-BC	Required Textbooks Tilley, S., & Rosenblatt H. J. (2017). Systems analysis and design (11th ed.). Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill/Irwin. ISBN-10: 1305494601|ISBN-13:9781305494602  Amazon link Project Management Institute. (2017). A guide to the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) (6th ed.).  Newtown Square, PA: Project Management Institute, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-1628251845 Amazon link  Project Management Institute. (2017). Q & A’s for the PMBOK® Guide (6th ed.). Newtown Square, PA: Project Management Institute, Inc. ISBN-10: 1628254610| ISBN-13: 978-1628254617 |Edition: 6 Amazon link   Wysocki, R. K. (2013). Effective project management: Traditional, agile, extreme (7th ed.). Indianapolis, IN: Wiley. ISBN-10: 1118729161 | ISBN-13: 978-1118729168 | Edition: 7 Amazon link | Free online access provided by TMC Library
BMI 5329	Workflow Process Modeling	Angela Ross, DNP, MPH, PMP, PHCNS-BC	Required Textbooks Sharp, A., & McDermott, P. (2008). Workflow modeling: Tools for process improvement and applications development (2nd ed.). Norwood, MA: Artech House. ISBN-10: 1596931922 | ISBN-13: 978-1596931923 | Edition: 2. Amazon link  Hoyt, R. E., Yoshihashi, A. K., & Bailey, N. J. (2014). Medical informatics: A practical guide for healthcare and informatics technology professionals (6th ed.). Lulu.com. ISBN-10: 1304791106 | ISBN-13: 978-1304791108 | Edition: 6.  Amazon link | AMIA Student Members receive 25% discount on paperback and PDF versions. Recommended Textbook Friedman, C. P., & Wyatt, J. (2010). Evaluation methods in biomedical informatics (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Springer Science + Business Media.  ISBN-10: 1441920722 | ISBN-13: 978-1441920720 | Edition: 2.  Amazon link
BMI 5330	Introduction to Bioinformatics	Arif Harmanci, PhD, MS	Recommended Textbooks Campbell, A. M., & Heyer, L. J. (2006). Discovering genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics (2nd ed.). San Francisco, CA: CSHL Press.  ISBN-10: 0805382194 | ISBN-13: 9780805382198 | Edition: 2.  Amazon link  Pevsner, J. (2015). Bioinformatics and functional genomics (3rd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN-10: 1118581784 | ISBN-13: 978-1118581780| Edition: 3. Amazon link |TMC Library Full Text Link
BMI 5331	Foundations of Pharmacogenomics	Assaf Gottlieb, PhD	Recommended Textbooks American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (2017). Concepts in Pharmacogenomics (2nd ed.). Bethesda, MD: American Society of Health System Pharmacists.  ISBN-10: 9781585285167 |  ISBN-13: 978-1585285167 | Edition: 2. Amazon link Altman, R.B., Flockhart, D., & Goldstein, D.B. (Eds.)(2012). Principles of Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. ISBN-10: 052188537X | ISBN-13: 978-0521885379| Edition: 1. Amazon link  Bertino, J.S., DeVane, C.L., Fuhr, U., Kashuba, A.D., Ma, J.D. (2013). Pharmacogenomics: An Introduction and Clinical Perspective. McGraw-Hill. ISBN-10: 0071741690 | ISBN-13: 978-0071741699| Edition: 1. Amazon link
BMI 5332	Statistical Genomic Analysis	Degui Zhi, PhD, MS	Required Textbook Irizarry, R. A., & Love, M. I. (2015). Data analysis for the life sciences with R [ePUB Reader].  Available and free for students at https://leanpub.com/dataanalysisforthelifesciences | Amazon link
BMI 5334	Biomedical Data Privacy	Arif Harmanci, PhD, MS	Recommended Textbooks Mollin, R. A. (2006). An Introduction to Cryptography (2nd ed.). Chapman and Hall/CRC.  ISBN-10: 1584886188 | ISBN-13: 978-1584886181.  Publisher link Dwork, C. (2014). The Algorithmic Foundations of Differential Privacy. Now Publishers Inc.  ISBN-10: 1601988184 | ISBN-13: 978-1601988188.  Amazon link
BMI 5351	Research Design and Evaluation in Biomedical Informatics	James Langabeer, II, PhD, MBA	Required Textbook Jacobsen, K. H. (2016). Introduction to health research methods: A practical guide (2nd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning. ISBN-10: 1284094383 | ISBN-13: 978-1284094381 | Edition: 2.  Amazon link  Recommended Textbook Greenhalgh, T. (2014). How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence-Based Medicine (5th ed.). West Sussex, UK: BMJ Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1118800966 | ISBN-10: 1118800966 Amazon link
BMI 5371	Business and Technical Communication	Kimberly Smith, PhD, MT(ASCP)	Required Textbooks Anderson, P. (2018). Technical communication: A reader-centered approach (9th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning. ISBN-10: 1305667883| ISBN-13: 978-1305667884| Edition: 9.  Amazon link  Heath, C., & Heath, D. (2007). Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. New York: Random House Books.  ISBN-13: 978-1400064281  Amazon link  Recommended Textbooks Flower, L. (1997). Problem-Solving Strategies for Writing in College and Community (4th ed.). Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace. ISBN-13: 978-0155001701 | ISBN-10: 0155001701 Amazon link  Gill, C. M. (2014). Essential writing skills for college and beyond. Cincinnati, OH: Writer's Digest Books.  ISBN-10: 1599637596 | ISBN-13: 978-1599637594.  Amazon link  Graff, G., & Birkenstein, C. (2018). "They say / I say": The moves that matter in academic writing (4th ed.). New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company.  ISBN-13: 978-0393631678 | ISBN-10: 0393631672| Edition: 4.  Amazon link  Terryberry, K. J. (2005). Writing for the health professions (1st ed.). Cengage Learning.   ISBN-10: 1401841929 | ISBN-13: 9781401841928. Amazon link
BMI 5380	Principles and Foundations of Public Health Informatics	Sahiti Myneni, PhD, MSE	Required Textbooks Magnuson, J. A., & Fu, P. C. (Eds.). (2014). Public health informatics and information systems (2nd ed.). London: Springer. ISBN-10: 1447142365 | ISBN-13: 978-1447142362 | Edition: 2. Amazon link  Recommended Textboos Glanz, K., Rimer, B. K., Viswanath, K. (2008). Health Behavior  And Health Education: Theory, Research, and Practice. (4th ed). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass ISBN-13: 9780787996147 | ISBN-10: 0787996149| Edition: 4. Amazon link
BMI 5381	Methods in Public Health Informatics	Sahiti Myneni, PhD, MSE	No Textbook
BMI 6301	Health Data Display	Yang Gong, MD, PhD	No Textbook
BMI 6306	Information and Knowledge Representation in Biomedical Informatics	Cui Tao, PhD	Required Textbooks Allemang, D., & Hendler, J. (2011). Semantic web for the working ontologist: Effective modeling in RDFS and OWL (2nd. ed.). Waltham, MA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. ISBN-10: 0123859654 | ISBN-13: 978-0123859655 | Edition: 2. Amazon Link
BMI 6316	Change Management in Health Informatics	Robert Murphy, MD	Required Textbooks Rogers, E. M. (2003). Diffusion of Innovation (5th ed.). New York, NY:  Simon and Schuster. ISBN-10: 0743222091 | ISBN-13: 978-0743222099 | Edition: 5. Amazon link   Harvard Business School Case Study Coursepack for BMI 6316. Available from: https://hbsp.harvard.edu/import/330714  Other case studies, recommended readings, research articles and supplements to case studies will be provided in the Canvas course
BMI 6318	Big Data in Biomedical Informatics	Luca Giancardo, PhD	Required Textbooks Wesley, W. M. K. (2017). Python for Data Analysis. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, Inc. ISBN-13: 9781491957653 | Edition: 2 Drabas, T., & Lee, D. (2017). Learning PySpark. Birmingham: Packt Publishing. ISBN-10: 1786463709
BMI 6319	Advanced Data Structures in Biomedical Informatics	Luca Giancardo, PhD	Recommended Textbook Wesley, W. M. K. (2017). Python for Data Analysis. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, Inc.  ISBN-10:1491957662| ISBN-13: 978-1491957660| Edition: 2 Amazon link
BMI 6323	Machine Learning in Biomedical Informatics	Kirk Roberts, PhD, MS	Required Textbooks Witten, I.H., Frank, E., Hall, M.A., & Pal, C. (2017). Data mining: Practical machine learning tools and techniques (4th ed.). Cambridge, MA: Morgan Kaufman. ISBN-10: 0128042915 | ISBN-13: 978-0128042915 | Edition: 4. Amazon link
BMI 6328	Health Care Delivery in an EHR-Enabled Environment	Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer, PhD	Required Textbook White, S. (2015).  A Practical Approach to Analyzing Healthcare Data (3rd Ed.) AHIMA Press.  ISBN-10: 1584265272 | ISBN-13: 978-1584265276  Amazon link
BMI 6333	Current Topics in Genomics	Peilin Jia, PhD	No Textbook
BMI 6340	Health Information Visualization & Visual Analytics	Todd Johnson	Required Textbook Few, S. (2009). Now you see it: Simple visualization techniques for quantitative analysis. Oakland, CA: Analytics Press. ISBN-10: 0970601980 | ISBN-13: 978-0970601988.  Amazon link
BMI 7150	Research Seminar	Elmer Bernstam, MD, MSE	No Textbook
BMI 7151	Seminar in Precision Medicine	Zhongming Zhao, PhD, MS	No Textbook
BMI 7301	Grant Writing	Lex Frieden, MA, LLD (hon)	Recommended Textbook Gitlin, L. N., & Lyons, K. J. (2013). Successful grant writing: Strategies for health and human service professionals (4th ed.). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.  ISBN-10: 0826100902 | ISBN-13: 978-0826100900 | Edition: 4.  Amazon link
BMI 7302	Theories and Frameworks for Biomedical Informatics Research	Susan Fenton, PhD, RHIA, FAHIMA	No Textbook
BMI 7304	Advanced Research Design for Biomedical Informatics	Susan Fenton, PhD, RHIA, FAHIMA	Required Textbook Shadish, W., Cook, T., & Campbell, D. (2002). Experimental and quasi-experimental designs for generalized causal inference (2nd ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing. ISBN-10: 0395615569 | ISBN-13: 978-0395615560| Edition: 2.  Amazon Link Additional readings will be posted each week in the Canvas course.