Textbooks

• Medical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care, E.H. Shortliffe & L.E. Perreault (editors), Addison-Wesley, Reading (MA), 1990, xx+715 pp. On reserve in Health Sciences Library.
  • Themes (Chapters 1-5)
    • History
    • Medical data
    • Decision making
    • Computer hardware and software
    • System design and evaluation
  • Applications (Chapters 6-18)
    • Medical records
    • Hospital information systems
    • Nursing information systems
    • Laboratory information systems
    • Pharmacy systems
    • Radiology
    • Patient-monitoring
    • Office practice
    • Bibliographic retrieval
    • Clinical decision support
    • Clinical research
    • Education
    • Health assessment
  • Future (Chapters 19 & 20)
• Computers in Clinical Practice: Managing Patients, Information, and Communication, J.A. Osheroff (editor), Am. College of Physicians, Philadelphia (PA), 1995, xxii+241 pp.
  • Applications
    • Practice management (comments)
    • Medical record systems (comments)
    • Medical literature management (comments)
    • Diagnostic decision support (comments)
    • Therapeutic decision support
    • Patient education
    • Personal continuing medical education
    • Telecommunications (comments)
    • CD-ROM's and full-text information (comments)
  • Hardware
    • Portable computing devices
    • Computer basics (comments)