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Overview
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.
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Reviewer: David M. Liebovitz, MD(Northwestern Memorial Hospital)Description: This comprehensive overview of the field of biomedical informatics is an update of the previously titled Medical Informatics from 2000. Each chapter provides an introduction to an important area in biomedical informatics with suggested additional reading and highlighted concepts.
Purpose: The book is intended to be used in formal courses by health professions students and by biomedical computing students. In addition, it is designed to serve as a reference for established practitioners, conveying concepts in biomedical informatics while providing illustrative examples.
Audience: According to the authors, this book will serve the needs of students in introductory courses while also providing a useful reference for practitioners. The contributors are leading authorities.
Features: The book addresses the breadth of the current field of biomedical informatics at an introductory level. It is especially useful for introducing the big picture of medical information management while providing intriguing glimpses into the many varied subdisciplines in this broad field. Bolded key concepts and questions for discussion are useful from an independent study perspective as well as for facilitating effective integration into a course syllabus.
Assessment: Overall, this is an essential contribution to enhancing education in biomedical informatics. The update is timely and relevant and it compares especially favorably in breadth as an introductory text.
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Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Medical Center.
Table of Contents
Recurrent Themes in Medical Informatics: The Computer Meets Medicine and Biology: Emergence of a Discipline; Medical Data: Their Acquisition, Storage, and Use; Medical Decision-Making: Probabilistic Medical Reasoning; Essential Concepts for Medical Computing; System Design and Engineering; Standards in Medical Informatics; Ethics and Health Informatics: Uses, Standards, and Outcomes; Evaluation and Technology Assessment.- Medical Computing Applications: Computer-Based Patient-Record Systems; Management of Clinical Information in Integrated Delivery Networks; Public Health and Consumer Uses of Health Information: Education, Research, Policy, Prevention, and Quality Assurance; Patient Care Systems; Patient-Monitoring Systems; Imaging Systems; Information-Retrieval Systems; Clinical Decision-Support Systems; Computers in Medical Education; Bioinformatics.- Medical Informatics in the Years Ahead: Health Care and Information Technology: Growing Up Together; The Future of Computer Applications in Health Care.