Medical Informatics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvii

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2. Recurrent Themes in Medical Informatics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Computer Meets Medicine and Biology: Emergence of a Discipline

      • Edward H. Shortliffe, Marsden S. Blois

      Pages 3-40

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

      • Edward H. Shortliffe, G. Octo Barnett

      Pages 41-75

   4. Medical Decision-Making: Probabilistic Medical Reasoning

      • Douglas K. Owens, Harold C. Sox

      Pages 76-131

   5. Essential Concepts for Medical Computing

      • Gio Wiederhold, Thomas C. Rindfleisch

      Pages 132-179

   6. System Design and Engineering

      • Gio Wiederhold, Edward H. Shortliffe

      Pages 180-211

   7. Standards in Medical Informatics

      • W. Edward Hammond, James J. Cimino

      Pages 212-256

   8. Ethics and Health Informatics: Users, Standards, and Outcomes

      • Kenneth W. Goodman, Randolph A. Miller

      Pages 257-281

   9. Evaluation and Technology Assessment

      • Charles P. Friedman, Douglas K. Owens, Jeremy C. Wyatt

      Pages 282-323

3. Medical Computing Applications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 325-325

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   2. Computer-Based Patient-Record Systems

      • Paul C. Tang, Clement J. McDonald

      Pages 327-358

   3. Management of Information in Integrated Delivery Networks

      • Charles Safran, Leslie E. Perreault

      Pages 359-396

   4. Public Health and Consumer Uses of Health Information: Education, Research, Policy, Prevention, and Quality Assurance

      • Patricia Flatley Brennan, Andrew Friede

      Pages 397-420

   5. Patient Care Systems

      • Judy G. Ozbolt, Suzanne Bakken

      Pages 421-442

   6. Patient-Monitoring Systems

      • Reed M. Gardner, M. Michael Shabot

      Pages 443-484

   7. Imaging Systems

      • Robert A. Greenes, James F. Brinkley

      Pages 485-538

   8. Information-Retrieval Systems

      • William R. Hersh, William M. Detmer, Mark E. Frisse

      Pages 539-572

   9. Clinical Decision-Support Systems

      • Mark A. Musen, Yuval Shahar, Edward H. Shortliffe

      Pages 573-609

   10. Computers in Medical Education

       • Parvati Dev, Edward P. Hoffer, G. Octo Barnett

       Pages 610-637

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.

• Biomedial Informatics
• Health Informatics
• Radiologieinformationssystem
• bioinformatics
• biomedical informatics
• evaluation
• healthcare
• informatics
• information technology
• medical computing
• medical informatics

From the reviews of the third edition:

"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)

"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)

• Department of Medical Informatics in Medicine, Science Vanderbilt Clinic, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, USA

  Edward H. Shortliffe

• New York, USA

  Leslie E. Perreault

Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Medical Center.

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