Medical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine

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