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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.

Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine

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.