Overview
- Includes new and thoroughly revised chapters on human-computer interaction, mHealth, personal health informatics and precision medicine
- Focuses on providing relevant practical examples for users to test their knowledge
- Provides a concise and comprehensive glossary ideal for the classroom and personal study
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Recurrent Themes in Biomedical Informatics
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Biomedical Informatics Applications
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Keywords
- 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
- big data
About this book
This 5th edition of this essential textbook continues to meet the growing demand of practitioners, researchers, educators, and students for a comprehensive introduction to key topics in biomedical informatics and the underlying scientific issues that sit at the intersection of biomedical science, patient care, public health and information technology (IT). Emphasizing the conceptual basis of the field rather than technical details, it provides the tools for study required for readers to comprehend, assess, and utilize biomedical informatics and health IT. It focuses on practical examples, a guide to additional literature, chapter summaries and a comprehensive glossary with concise definitions of recurring terms for self-study or classroom use.
Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine reflects the remarkable changes in both computing and health care that continue to occur and the exploding interest in the role that IT must play in carecoordination and the melding of genomics with innovations in clinical practice and treatment. New and heavily revised chapters have been introduced on human-computer interaction, mHealth, personal health informatics and precision medicine, while the structure of the other chapters has undergone extensive revisions to reflect the developments in the area. The organization and philosophy remain unchanged, focusing on the science of information and knowledge management, and the role of computers and communications in modern biomedical research, health and health care.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. James Cimino is a board certified internist who completed a National Library of Medicine informatics fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University and then went on to an academic position at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Presbyterian Hospital in New York. He spent 20 years at Columbia, carrying out clinical informatics research, building clinical information systems, teaching medical informatics and medicine, and caring for patients, rising to the rank of full professor in both Biomedical Informatics and Medicine. His principle research areas there included desiderata for controlled terminologies, mobile and Web-based clinical information systems for clinicians and patients, and a context-aware form of clinical decision support called “infobuttons”. In 2008, he moved to the National Institutes of Health, where he was the Chief of the Laboratory for Informatics Development and a Tenured Investigator at the NIH Clinical Center and the National Library of Medicine. His principle project involved the development of the Biomedical Translational Research Information System (BTRIS), an NIH-wide clinical research data resource. In 2015, he left NIH to be the inaugural Director of the Informatics Institute at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The Institute is charged with improving informatics research, education, and service across the University, supporting the Personalized Medicine Institute, the Center for Genomic Medicine, and the University Health System Foundation, including improvement of and access to electronic health records. He holds the rank of Tenured Professor in Medicine, and is the Chief for the Informatics Section in the Division of General Internal Medicine. He continues to conduct research in clinical informatics and clinical research informatics, he has been director of the NLM's week-long Biomedical Informatics course (currently hosted by Georgia Regents University) for 16 years, and teaches at Columbia University and Georgetown University as an Adjunct Professor. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics. His honors include Fellowships of the American College of Physicians, the New York Academy of Medicine and the American College of Medical Informatics (Past President), the Priscilla Mayden Award from the University of Utah, the Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics and the President’s Award, both from the American Medical Informatics Association, the Medal of Honor from New York Medical College, the NIH Clinical Center Director’s Award (twice), and induction into the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine).
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/10.1007/978-3-030-58721-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58720-8Published: 28 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-58721-5Published: 31 May 2021
Edition Number: 5
Number of Pages: XLIII, 1152
Number of Illustrations: 83 b/w illustrations, 175 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Informatics, Biomedicine, general, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology/Bioinformatics