Third Edition
Biomedical Informatics Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine
E.H. Shortliffe, Editor
J.J. Cimino, Associate Editor


Table of Contents

I. Recurrent Themes in Biomedical Informatics

1. The Computer Meets Medicine and Biology: Emergence of a Discipline (proof free for downloading)

Edward H. Shortliffe and Marsden S. Blois

2. Biomedical Data: Their Acquisition, Storage, and Use

Edward H. Shortliffe and G. Octo Barnett

3. Biomedical Decision Making: Probabilistic Clinical Reasoning

Douglas K. Owens and Harold C. Sox

4. Cognitive Science and Biomedical Informatics

Vimla L. Patel and David R. Kaufman

5. Essential Concepts for Biomedical Computing

Gio Wiederhold and Thomas C. Rindfleisch

6. System Design and Engineering in Health Care

Gio Wiederhold and Edward H. Shortliffe

7. >Standards in Biomedical Informatics

W. Edward Hammond and James J. Cimino

8. Natural Language and Text Processing in Biomedicine

Carol Friedman and Stephen Johnson

9. Imaging and Structural Informatics

James Brinkley and Robert A. Greenes

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

Kenneth W. Goodman and Randolph A. Miller

11. Evaluation and Technology Assessment

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

II. Biomedical Informatics Applications

12. Electronic Health Record Systems

Paul C. Tang and Clement J. McDonald

13. Management of Information in Healthcare Organizations

Lynn Harold Vogel, Charles Safran, and Leslie E. Perreault

14. Consumer Health Informatics and Telehealth

Patricia Flatley Brennan and Justin Starren

15. >Public Health Informatics and the Health Information Infrastructure

William A. Yasnoff, Patrick O'Carroll, and Andrew Friede

16. Patient-Care Systems

Judy Ozbolt and Suzanne Bakken

17. Patient Monitoring Systems

Reed M. Gardner and M. Michael Shabot

18. Imaging Systems in Radiology

Robert A. Greenes and James Brinkley

19. Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries

William Hersh, P. Zoë Stavri, and William Detmer

20. Clinical Decision-Support Systems

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

21. Computers in Health Science Education

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

22. Bioinformatics

Russ B. Altman and Sean Mooney

III. Biomedical Informatics in the Years Ahead

23. Healthcare Financing and Information Technology: A Historical Perspective

Sara J. Singer, Alain C. Enthoven, and Alan M. Garber

24. The Future of Computer Applications in Biomedicine

Lawrence M. Fagan and Edward H. Shortliffe


Glossary (proof free for downloading)

Bibliography (proof free for downloading)

Name Index

Subject Index