Medical Informatics Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine

This series is directed to healthcare professionals who are leading the transfor­ mation of health care by using information and knowledge. Launched in 1988 as Computers in Health Care, the series offers a broad range of titles: some ad­ dressed to specific professions such as nursing, medicine, and...

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Other Authors: Shortliffe, Edward H. (Editor), Perreault, Leslie E. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 2001, 2001
Edition:2nd ed. 2001
Series:Health Informatics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Unit I Recurrent Themes in Medical Informatics
  • 1 The Computer Meets Medicine and Biology: Emergence of a Discipline
  • 2 Medical Data: Their Acquisition, Storage, and Use
  • 3 Medical Decision-Making: Probabilistic Medical Reasoning
  • 4 Essential Concepts for Medical Computing
  • 5 System Design and Engineering
  • 6 Standards in Medical Informatics
  • 7 Ethics and Health Informatics: Users, Standards, and Outcomes
  • 8 Evaluation and Technology Assessment
  • Unit II Medical Computing Applications
  • 9 Computer-Based Patient-Record Systems
  • 10 Management of Information in Integrated Delivery Networks
  • 11 Public Health and Consumer Uses of Health Information: Education, Research, Policy, Prevention, and Quality Assurance
  • 12 Patient-Care Systems
  • 13 Patient-Monitoring Systems
  • 14 Imaging Systems
  • 15 Information-Retrieval Systems
  • 16 Clinical Decision-Support Systems
  • 17 Computers in Medical Education
  • 18 Bioinformatics
  • Unit III Medical Informatics in the Years Ahead
  • 19 Health Care and Information Technology: Growing Up Together
  • 20 The Future of Computer Applications in Health Care
  • Name Index