The practice of modern medicine and biomedical research requires sophisticated information technologies with which to manage patient information, plan diagnostic procedures, interpret laboratory results, and carry out investigations. Biomedical Informatics provides both a conceptual framework and a practical inspiration for this swiftly emerging scientific discipline at the intersection of computer science, decision science, information science, cognitive science, and biomedicine. Now revised and in its third edition, this text meets the growing demand by practitioners, researchers, and students for a comprehensive introduction to key topics in the field. Authored by leaders in medical informatics and extensively tested in their courses, the chapters in this volume constitute an effective textbook for students of medical informatics and its areas of application. The book is also a useful reference work for individual readers needing to understand the role that computers can play in the provision of clinical services and the pursuit of biological questions. The volume is organized so as first to explain basic concepts and then to illustrate them with specific systems and technologies.
Author(s): Edward H. Shortliffe MD, PhD (auth.), Edward H. Shortliffe, James J. Cimino (eds.)
Edition: 4
Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 965
Tags: Health Informatics; Biomedicine general
Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Biomedical Informatics: The Science and the Pragmatics....Pages 3-37
Biomedical Data: Their Acquisition, Storage, and Use....Pages 39-66
Biomedical Decision Making: Probabilistic Clinical Reasoning....Pages 67-107
Cognitive Science and Biomedical Informatics....Pages 109-148
Computer Architectures for Health Care and Biomedicine....Pages 149-184
Software Engineering for Health Care and Biomedicine....Pages 185-209
Standards in Biomedical Informatics....Pages 211-253
Natural Language Processing in Health Care and Biomedicine....Pages 255-284
Biomedical Imaging Informatics....Pages 285-327
Ethics in Biomedical and Health Informatics: Users, Standards, and Outcomes....Pages 329-353
Evaluation of Biomedical and Health Information Resources....Pages 355-387
Front Matter....Pages 389-389
Electronic Health Record Systems....Pages 391-421
Health Information Infrastructure....Pages 423-441
Management of Information in Health Care Organizations....Pages 443-474
Patient-Centered Care Systems....Pages 475-501
Public Health Informatics....Pages 503-516
Consumer Health Informatics and Personal Health Records....Pages 517-539
Telehealth....Pages 541-560
Patient Monitoring Systems....Pages 561-591
Imaging Systems in Radiology....Pages 593-611
Front Matter....Pages 389-389
Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries....Pages 613-641
Clinical Decision-Support Systems....Pages 643-674
Computers in Health Care Education....Pages 675-693
Bioinformatics....Pages 695-719
Translational Bioinformatics....Pages 721-754
Clinical Research Informatics....Pages 755-777
Front Matter....Pages 779-779
Health Information Technology Policy....Pages 781-795
The Future of Informatics in Biomedicine....Pages 797-811
Back Matter....Pages 813-965
