Overview
- Review questions will reinforce learning, and eight of the ten proposed chapters will include case studies
- The textbook includes extensible designs in biomedical applications: electronic medical records, clinical study data management systems, laboratory research support systems, ontologies, and production-rule subsystems
- The technical portion of the book will consist of database schemas and working code that will provide non-trivial examples for the practitioner who is conversant with software development and wishes to employ the approaches described in the book
Part of the book series: Health Informatics (HI)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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About this book
While the use of database technology is ubiquitous throughout IT (and health IT in particular), it is not generally appreciated that, as a database increases in scope, certain designs are far superior to others. In biomedical domains, new knowledge is being generated continually, and the databases that must support areas such as clinical care and research must also be able to evolve while requiring minimal or no logical / physical redesign. Appropriately designed metadata, and software designed to utilize it effectively, can provide significant insulation against change.
Many of the larger EMR or clinical research database vendors have realized this, but their designs are proprietary and not described in the literature. Consequently, numerous misconceptions abound among individuals who have not had to work with large-scale biomedical systems, and graduates of a health or bioinformatics program may find that they need to unlearn what they were taught in database and software design classes in order to work productively with such systems. A working knowledge of such systems is also important for individuals who are not primarily software developers, such as health informaticians, medical information officers and data analysts. This book is, in a sense, intended to prepare all of the above individuals for the real world.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Metadata-driven Software Systems in Biomedicine
Book Subtitle: Designing Systems that can adapt to Changing Knowledge
Authors: Prakash M. Nadkarni
Series Title: Health Informatics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-510-1
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-85729-509-5Published: 29 May 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-2662-1Published: 15 July 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-0-85729-510-1Published: 27 May 2011
Series ISSN: 1431-1917
Series E-ISSN: 2197-3741
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 396
Topics: Health Informatics, Biomedicine general, Health Administration