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Book Computer Medical Databases

    Book Details:
  • Author : Morris F. Collen
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2011-10-20
  • ISBN : 085729962X
  • Pages : 301 pages

Download or read book Computer Medical Databases written by Morris F. Collen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 1 offers an overview of the basic computer technology. Each succeeding chapter, describes the problems in medicine, followed by a review in chronological sequence of why and how computers were applied to try to meet these problems. Only the technical aspects of computer hardware, software, and communications are discussed as they are necessary to explain how the technology was applied. This approach generally led to defining the objectives for applications of medical informatics. At the end of each chapter, the author summarizes his personal views and interpretations of the chapter contents. Although the concurrent evolution of medical informatics in Canada, Europe, and Japan certainly influenced workers in the United States, the scope of this historical review is limited to the development of medical informatics within the United States. Furthermore, this review is limited to electronic digital computers; it excludes mechanical, analog, and hybrid computers.

Book Consumer Driven Health Care

    Book Details:
  • Author : Regina E. Herzlinger
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2004-03-22
  • ISBN : 9780787972165
  • Pages : 930 pages

Download or read book Consumer Driven Health Care written by Regina E. Herzlinger and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-03-22 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Herzlinger documents how the consumer-driven health caremovement is being implemented and its impact on insurers,providers, new intermediaries, and governments. With additionalcontributions by health care's leading strategists,innovators, regulators and scholars, Consumer-Driven HealthCare presents a compelling vision of a health care system builtto satisfy the people it serves. This comprehensive resource includes the most important thinkingon the topic and compelling case studies of consumer-driven healthcare (CDHC) in action, here and abroad, including newconsumer-driven intermediaries for information and support; typesof insurance plans; focused factories for delivering health care;personalized drugs and devices; and government roles.

Book History and Electronic Artefacts

Download or read book History and Electronic Artefacts written by Edward Higgs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are now entering a world of electronic communications where an increasing amount of contemporary information is created and retained only in electronic form. How will such unstable flows of information be preserved for future historians? Will the future have a past? Will the history of ourcontemporary world be lost to our descendants? History and Electronic Artefacts is the first publication to examine the implications of this revolution for historical research. Historians are used to handling paper and parchment record in archives. These are actual pieces of correspondence which passed between historical actors. They are alsorelatively stable artefacts which can be preserved easily. Two factors introduced by the electronic revolution threaten the existence of paper archives: the dissociation between information content and the media by which it is transmitted ruptures the solidity of the archival object. The ability tostore electronic information anywhere and access it remotely via networks could make the central paper archive redundant. Experts from the fields of information management and technology, data archiving, library science, as well as historians, consider the issues raised in depth. The authors also place a unique emphasis on European developments.

Book Temporal Information Systems in Medicine

Download or read book Temporal Information Systems in Medicine written by Carlo Combi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Temporal Information Systems in Medicine introduces the engineering of information systems for medically-related problems and applications. The chapters are organized into four parts; fundamentals, temporal reasoning & maintenance in medicine, time in clinical tasks, and the display of time-oriented clinical information. The chapters are self-contained with pointers to other relevant chapters or sections in this book when necessary. Time is of central importance and is a key component of the engineering process for information systems. This book is designed as a secondary text or reference book for upper -undergraduate level students and graduate level students concentrating on computer science, biomedicine and engineering. Industry professionals and researchers working in health care management, information systems in medicine, medical informatics, database management and AI will also find this book a valuable asset.

Book The History of Medical Informatics in the United States

Download or read book The History of Medical Informatics in the United States written by Morris F. Collen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a meticulously detailed chronological record of significant events in the history of medical informatics and their impact on direct patient care and clinical research, offering a representative sampling of published contributions to the field. The History of Medical Informatics in the United States has been restructured within this new edition, reflecting the transformation medical informatics has undergone in the years since 1990. The systems that were once exclusively institutionally driven – hospital, multihospital, and outpatient information systems – are today joined by systems that are driven by clinical subspecialties, nursing, pathology, clinical laboratory, pharmacy, imaging, and more. At the core is the person – not the clinician, not the institution – whose health all these systems are designed to serve. A group of world-renowned authors have joined forces with Dr Marion Ball to bring Dr Collen’s incredible work to press. These recognized leaders in medical informatics, many of whom are recipients of the Morris F. Collen Award in Medical Informatics and were friends of or mentored by Dr Collen, carefully reviewed, editing and updating his draft chapters. This has resulted in the most thorough history of the subject imaginable, and also provides readers with a roadmap for the subject well into later in the century.

Book Computerizing Large Integrated Health Networks

Download or read book Computerizing Large Integrated Health Networks written by Robert M. Kolodner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been a long time in the making. The computerization activi ties described in these pages began in 1977 at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), but we devoted most of our focus and efforts to building and then implementing the extensive hospital information system known as the Decentralized Hospital Computer System (DHCP) throughout VA. Deliv ering the product has been our primary goal. We spent relatively little time documenting or describing our experiences or lessons learned. Except for some presentations at national meetings and a relatively few publications, almost none of which were in the standard trade journals read by Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and equivalent top managers in the private and nonprofit sectors, VA's accomplishments remained a well-kept secret. In 1988, Helly Orthner encouraged VA staff to consider writing a book, but the press of day-to-day activities always seemed to take precedence, and the book languished on the back burner.

Book Translation and Medicine

Download or read book Translation and Medicine written by Henry Fischbach and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to "Translation and Medicine" address several broad aspects of medical translation, from the cultural/historic framework of the language of medicine to pragmatic considerations of register and terminology. Their articles highlight some of the contributions translation has made to medical science and addresses some of the questions raised by those who escort the advances of medicine across language and cultural barriers and those who train the next generation of medical translators.Section 1 covers some Historical and Cultural Aspects that have characterized the language of medicine in Japan and Western Europe, with special emphasis on French and Spanish; Section 2 opens some vistas on The Medical Translator in Training with two specific university-level programs in Switzerland and in Spain, as well as an in-depth analysis of who makes the better medical translator: the medically knowledgeable linguist or the linguistically knowledgeable medical professional; and Section 3 looks at several facets of The Translator at Work, with discussions of the translator-client relationship and the art of audience-specific translating, an insider s view of the Translation Unit of the National Institutes of Health, and a detailed study of online medical terminology resources.

Book Health Promotion and Interactive Technology

Download or read book Health Promotion and Interactive Technology written by Richard L. Street and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book's purpose is to offer various perspectives relating to the development, effectiveness, and implementation of interactive computing technology for health promotion--programs and interventions aimed at improving various health-related outcomes such as involvement in care, quality of life, adherence, disease management, healthy lifestyle, and more. Its coverage includes: *conceptual foundations for examining how characteristics of media, messages, and users relate to one another and how interactive media can effectively and appropriately promote health outcomes; *examinations of the development, utilization, and evaluation of specific computer applications for health promotion featuring discussions of the theoretical rationale for the program, the targeted audience, research on the program's effectiveness, and implications for future program development; and *analyses of critical issues such as potential benefits and limitations of technology on the delivery of care, institutional obstacles to the adoption of computing technology, and prospects for integrating information technology into the health system.

Book Conceptual Structures  Current Practices

Download or read book Conceptual Structures Current Practices written by William M. Tepfenhart and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1994-07-27 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS '94, held at College Park, Maryland, USA in August 1994. This proceedings presents, on an international scale, up-to- the-minute research results on theoretical and applicational aspects of conceptual graphs, particularly on the use of contexts in knowledge representation. The concept of contexts is highly important for all kinds of knowledge-intensive systems. The book is organized into sections on natural language understanding, rational problem solving, conceptual graph theory, contexts and canons, and data modeling.

Book Clinical Decision Support

Download or read book Clinical Decision Support written by Robert Greenes and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the nature of medical knowledge, how it is obtained, and how it can be used for decision support. It provides complete coverage of computational approaches to clinical decision-making. Chapters discuss data integration into healthcare information systems and delivery to point of care for providers, as well as facilitation of direct to consumer access. A case study section highlights critical lessons learned, while another portion of the work examines biostatistical methods including data mining, predictive modelling, and analysis. This book additionally addresses organizational, technical, and business challenges in order to successfully implement a computer-aided decision-making support system in healthcare delivery.

Book Nursing Informatics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ulla Gerdin
  • Publisher : IOS Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9789051993622
  • Pages : 660 pages

Download or read book Nursing Informatics written by Ulla Gerdin and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects the evolution of a vibrant discipline in its chosen. The Impact of Nursing Knowledge on health Care Informatics. Nursing Informatics has changed the practice, defining new roles for nursing in education, research, patient care and administration. reaching out into industry, government and consultancies. The range of issues addressed in this book is extraordinary, including nursing language, cognitive skills, education and training, nursing research, systems design, decision support, patient record, patient management, standards and more. It also clarifies values, strategies and practices central to the profession of nursing. This book is a part of the global network, building bridges between teachers, students, clinicians, administrators and researchers around the world and creating a lasting bond.

Book Medical Errors

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Medical Errors written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Visual Information Systems

    Book Details:
  • Author : Clement Leung
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 1997-09-29
  • ISBN : 9783540636366
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Visual Information Systems written by Clement Leung and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997-09-29 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a thoroughly arranged anthology outlining the state of the art in the emerging area of visual informationsystems. The chapters presented are a selection of thoroughly refereed and revised full papers first presented at the First International Conference on visual Information Systems held in February 1996. Next generation information systems have a high visual content, and there will be a shift in emphasis from a paradigm of predominantly alphanumeric data processing to one of visual information processing. The book provides a detailed introductory chapter, two keynotes by leading authorities, sections on design and architecture, database management and modelling, contend-based search and retrieval, feature extraction and indexing, query model and interface, and object recognition and content organization.

Book Nursing and Computers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Virginia K. Saba
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 1461236223
  • Pages : 443 pages

Download or read book Nursing and Computers written by Virginia K. Saba and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for nurses who would like to know more about the development of the computerized information systems on which they have become so dependent, Nursing and Computers: An Anthology is a wide-range introduction to the literature of this field. The editors have selected historical and contemporary papers to show both the systems at their inception and examples of how they have evolved. Of interest to both the generalist and the specialist, these articles examine the partnership between nurses and computers in the areas of administration, practice, research, and education.