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Biomedical Informatics

Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Edward H. Shortliffe

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

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  2. James J. Cimino

    1. Bethesda, USA

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  • Provides the conceptual base needed to comprehend and utilize medical informatics through easy to understand examples
  • Fills the need for a high quality text in computers and medicine
  • Focuses on the role of computers in the provision of medical services
  • Inspired by a Stanford University training program
  • Includes several new chapters filled with brand new material

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  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
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About this book

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.

Reviews

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)

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Edward H. Shortliffe

  • Bethesda, USA

    James J. Cimino

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Biomedical Informatics

  • Book Subtitle: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine

  • Editors: Edward H. Shortliffe, James J. Cimino

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4474-8

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-6804-1Published: 27 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-4474-8Published: 02 December 2013

  • Edition Number: 4

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 965

  • Number of Illustrations: 118 b/w illustrations, 135 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Health Informatics, Biomedicine general

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