Biomedical informatics : computer applications in health care and biomedicine

This series is directed to healthcare professionals who are leading the transfor­ mation of health care by using information and knowledge. Launched in 1988 as Computers in Health Care, the series offers a broad range of titles: some ad­ dressed to specific professions such as nursing, medicine, and health adminis­ tration; others to special areas of practice such as trauma and radiology. Still other books in the series focus on interdisciplinary issues, such as the computer­ based patient record, electronic health records, and networked healthcare systems. Renamed Health Informatics in 1998 to reflect the rapid evolution in the dis­ cipline now known as health informatics, the series continues to add titles that contribute to the evolution of the field. In the series, eminent experts, serving as editors or authors, offer their accounts of innovations in health informatics. In­ creasingly, these accounts go beyond hardware and software to address the role of information in influencing the transformation of healthcare delivery systems around the world. The series also increasingly focuses on "peopleware" and the organizational, behavioral, and societal changes that accompany the diffusion of information technology in health services environments. Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Computer Meets Medicine and Biology: Emergence of a Discipline....Pages 3-40 Medical Data: Their Acquisition, Storage, and Use....Pages 41-75 Medical Decision-Making: Probabilistic Medical Reasoning....Pages 76-131 Essential Concepts for Medical Computing....Pages 132-179 System Design and Engineering....Pages 180-211 Standards in Medical Informatics....Pages 212-256 Ethics and Health Informatics: Users, Standards, and Outcomes....Pages 257-281 Evaluation and Technology Assessment....Pages 282-323 Front Matter....Pages 325-325 Computer-Based Patient-Record Systems....Pages 327-358 Management of Information in Integrated Delivery Networks....Pages 359-396 Public Health and Consumer Uses of Health Information: Education, Research, Policy, Prevention, and Quality Assurance....Pages 397-420 Patient Care Systems....Pages 421-442 Patient-Monitoring Systems....Pages 443-484 Imaging Systems....Pages 485-538 Information-Retrieval Systems....Pages 539-572 Clinical Decision-Support Systems....Pages 573-609 Computers in Medical Education....Pages 610-637 Bioinformatics....Pages 638-660 Front Matter....Pages 661-661 Health Care and Information Technology: Growing Up Together....Pages 663-696 The Future of Computer Applications in Health Care....Pages 697-712 Back Matter....Pages 713-856 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 The practice of modern medicine requires sophisticated information technologies with which to manage patient information, plan diagnostic procedures, interpret laboratory results, and conduct research. Designed for a broad audience, this book fills the need for a high quality reference in computers and medicine, first explaining basic concepts, then illustrating them with specific systems and technologies. Medical Informatics provides both a conceptual framework and a practical inspiration for this swiftly emerging scientific discipline. The second edition covers system design and engineering, ethics of health informatics, system evaluation and technology assessment, public health and consumer use of health information, and healthcare financing. Provides both a conceptual framework and a practical approach for the implementation and management of IT used to improve the delivery of health care. Designed for use by professors and students of medical informatics and for practicing professionals, this book focuses on the role of computers in the provision of medical services. It provides the conceptual base needed to comprehend and utilize medical informatics through easy to understand examples that demonstrate how computers assist in the delivery of health care. This text also includes pointers to additional literature, chapter summaries, and concise definition of recurring terms for self-study or classroom use Focuses on the role of computers in the provision of medical services. This book provides both a conceptual framework and a practical approach for the implementation and management of IT used to improve the delivery of health care. It is suitable for practitioners, researchers, and students for an introduction to key topics in the field