Biomedical informatics

Biomedical informatics computer applications in health care and biomedicine / [electronic resource] : Edward H. Shortliffe, editor ; James J. Cimino, associate editor. - 3rd ed. - New York, NY : Springer, c2006. - xxvi, 1037 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. - Health informatics series . - Health informatics. .

Rev. ed. of: Medical informatics. c2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 849-913) and indexes.

The computer meets medicine and biology : emergence of a discipline -- Biomedical data : their acquisition, storage, and use -- Biomedical decision making : probabilistic clinical reasoning -- Cognitive science and biomedical informatics -- Essential concepts for biomedical computing -- System design and engineering in health care -- Standards in biomedical informatics -- Natural language and text processing in biomedicine -- Imaging and structural informatics -- Ethics and health informatics : users, standards, and outcomes -- Evaluation and technology assessment -- Electronic health record systems -- Management of information in healthcare organizations -- Consumer health informatics and telehealth. -- Public health informatics and the health information infrastructure -- Patient-care systems -- Patient-monitoring systems -- Imaging systems in radiology -- Information retrieval and digital libraries -- Clinical decision-support systems -- Computers in medical education -- Bioinformatics -- Health care financing and information technology : a historical perspective -- The future of computer applications in biomedicine.


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Medical informatics.


Electronic books.

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