Biomedical Informatics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvi

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2. Recurrent Themes in Biomedical Informatics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Biomedical Informatics: The Science and the Pragmatics

      • Edward H. Shortliffe

      Pages 3-37

   3. Biomedical Data: Their Acquisition, Storage, and Use

      • Edward H. Shortliffe, G. Octo Barnett

      Pages 39-66

   4. Biomedical Decision Making: Probabilistic Clinical Reasoning

      • Douglas K. Owens, Harold C. Sox

      Pages 67-107

   5. Cognitive Science and Biomedical Informatics

      • Vimla L. Patel, David R. Kaufman

      Pages 109-148

   6. Computer Architectures for Health Care and Biomedicine

      • Jonathan C. Silverstein, Ian T. Foster

      Pages 149-184

   7. Software Engineering for Health Care and Biomedicine

      • Adam B. Wilcox, Scott P. Narus, David K. Vawdrey

      Pages 185-209

   8. Standards in Biomedical Informatics

      • W. Edward Hammond, Charles Jaffe, James J. Cimino, Stanley M. Huff

      Pages 211-253

   9. Natural Language Processing in Health Care and Biomedicine

      • Carol Friedman, Noémie Elhadad

      Pages 255-284

   10. Biomedical Imaging Informatics

       • Daniel L. Rubin, Hayit Greenspan, James F. Brinkley

       Pages 285-327

   11. Ethics in Biomedical and Health Informatics: Users, Standards, and Outcomes

       • Kenneth W. Goodman, Reid Cushman, Randolph A. Miller

       Pages 329-353

   12. Evaluation of Biomedical and Health Information Resources

       • Charles P. Friedman, Jeremy C. Wyatt

       Pages 355-387

3. Biomedical Informatics Applications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 389-389

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   2. Electronic Health Record Systems

      • Clement J. McDonald, Paul C. Tang, George Hripcsak

      Pages 391-421

   3. Health Information Infrastructure

      • William A. Yasnoff

      Pages 423-441

   4. Management of Information in Health Care Organizations

      • Lynn Harold Vogel

      Pages 443-474

   5. Patient-Centered Care Systems

      • Judy Ozbolt, Suzanne Bakken, Patricia C. Dykes

      Pages 475-501

   6. Public Health Informatics

      • Martin LaVenture, David A. Ross, William A. Yasnoff

      Pages 503-516

   7. Consumer Health Informatics and Personal Health Records

      • Kevin Johnson, Holly Brugge Jimison, Kenneth D. Mandl

      Pages 517-539

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.

• Bioinformatics
• Biomedical Decision Making
• Clinical Decision-Support Systems
• Clinical Research Informatics
• Consumer Health Informatics
• Electronic Health Record Systems
• Health Information
• Imaging Informatics
• Information Technology Policy
• Patient Monitoring Systems
• Patient-Centered Care
• Personal Health Records
• Software Engineering for Health Care
• Telehealth

From the book reviews:

“The book provides an extensive discussion of many important theoretical aspects of bioinformatics. … This book is useful for reference, with respect to several of the topics listed in the table of contents. … If one is faculty or student in an academic informatics department, or wishing to draw upon this academic corpus to consider applications in clinical informatics practice, then this would be a useful book.” (Raymond D. Aller, Journal of Pathology Informatics, Vol. 5 (42), 2014)

"An introduction to an important area in biomedical informatics with suggested additional reading and highlighted concepts. 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. … 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." (David M. Liebovitz, Doody’s Review Service, July, 2008)

"The third edition, renamed Biomedical Informatics in recognition of the converging course of clinical systems with systems that support molecular biology and genetics … shows substantial growth in both pages and breadth of coverage relative to earlier editions. … overall the book is commendably readable … . In addition to its primary audience of students … the text’s accumulated wisdom and lessons learned can help educate any health professional responsible for selecting information systems to be acquired and used in office and institutional settings." (Daniel Masys, JAMA, Vol. 296 (21), December, 2006)

• Departments of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University and Arizona State University, New York, USA

  Edward H. Shortliffe

• Bethesda, USA

  James J. Cimino

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