Computer Applications in Medicine Elective

Textbook on reserve

• Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine, 3rd edition, E.H. Shortliffe & J.J. Cimino (editors), Springer, New York, 2006, xxvi + 1037 pp.
  On reserve in Health Sciences Library: call number W26.5 B64
  Book Web site
  • Recurrent themes in biomedical informatics (Chapters 1-11)
    • The computer meets medicine and biology: Emergence of a discipline
    • Biomedical data: Their acquisition, storage, and use
    • Biomedical decision making: Probabilistic reasoning
    • Cognitive science and biomedical informatics
    • Essential concepts for biomedical computing
    • System design and engineering in health care
    • Standards in biomedical informatics
    • Natural language and text processing in biomedicine
    • Imaging and structural informatics
    • Ethics and health informatics: Users, standards, and outcomes
    • Evaluation and technology assessment
  • Biomedical informatics applications (Chapters 12-22)
    • Electronic health record systems
    • Management of information in healthcare organizations
    • Public health and consumer applications
    • Consumer health informatics and telehealth
    • Public health informatics and the health information infrastructure
    • Patient-care systems
    • Patient monitoring systems
    • Imaging systems in radiology
    • Information retrieval and digital libraries
    • Clinical decision-support systems
    • Computers in health science education
    • Bioinformatics
  • Future (Chapters 23 & 24)
    • Healthcare Financing and Information Technology: A Historical Perspective
    • The Future of Computer Applications in Biomedicine

Other books in Health Sciences Library

The following is a partial list of other medical-informatics books in the Health Sciences Library:

Handbook of research on informatics in healthcare and biomedicine	A.A. Lazakidou (ed.)	2006	Idea Group Reference, Hershey, PA	xxx+437 pp.	W26.5 H2355
Health information on the Internet: a study of providers, quality, and users	R. Cullen	2006	Praeger, Westport, Conn.	x+256 pp.	W26.5 C967h
Handhelds in medicine: a practical guide for clinicians	S.M. Strayer, P.L. Reynolds & M.H. Ebell (eds.)	2005	Springer, New York	xx+463 pp.	W26.55 C7 H236
Consumer health informatics: informing consumers and improving health care	D. Lewis et al. (eds.)	2005	Springer, New York	xxi+258 p.	W26.5 C7576
E-health care information systems : an introduction for students and professionals	J. Tan (ed.)	2005	Jossey-Bass (San Francisco)	xxxi+589 pp.	W26.55 I4 E33
Transformation of healthcare with information technologies	M. Duplaga, K. Zielinski & D. Ingram (eds.)	2004	IOS Press, Amsterdam & Washington, DC	ix+350 pp.	W26.5 T772
E-health: current situation and examples of implemented and beneficial e-health applications	I. Iakovidis, P. Wilson & J.C. Healy	2004	IOS Press, Amsterdam & Washington DC	xvi+251 pp.	W26.5 E332
E-Health: current status and future trends	G. Demiris (ed.)	2004	IOS Press (Amsterdam)	ix+145 pp.	W26.5 E333
The medical professional's guide to handheld computing	C. Helopoulos	2004	Jones and Bartlett (Boston)	vi+207 pp. +CD-ROM	W26.55 C7 H36m (MGH)
Medicine meets virtual reality 12: building a better you: the next tools for medical education, diagnosis, and care (also volumes from 2000-2003)	J.D. Westwood et al.	2004	IOS Press (Amsterdam)	xiv+428 pp.	W26.5 M4898m
Healthcare information systems	K. Beaver (ed.)	2003	Auerbach, Boca Raton, FL	xi+507 pp.	W26.55 I4 H435
Information retrieval: a health and biomedical perspective, 2nd ed.	W.R. Hersh	2003	Springer, New York	xiv+517 pp.	W26.55 I4 H572i
Understanding medical information: a user's guide to informatics and decision making	T.J. Jordan	2002	McGraw-Hill, New York	xvi+304 pp.	W26.5 J82u
Clinical knowledge and practice in the information age: a handbook for health professionals	J.C. Wyatt	2001	Royal Society of Medicine Press, London	ix+93 pp.	W26.5 W975c
Don't leave IT to the geeks: taking charge of the IT planning process in acute chronic, and long-term care	R.H. Irving	2001	Pheasant Ridge Creations, Port Perry (ON)	xi+180 pp.	W 26.55 I4 IR8
Health management information systems: methods and practical applications, 2nd edition	J.K.H. Tan	2001	Aspen Publishers (Gaithersburg, MD)	xx+380 pp.	W26.5 T161h
Advanced infrastructures for future healthcare	A. Marsh, L. Grandinetti and T. Kauranne (eds.)	2000	IOS Press, Amsterdam & Washington DC	viii+550 pp.	W26.5 A244
Health care resources on the internet: a guide for librarians and health care consumers	M.S. Wood (ed.)	2000	Haworth Information Press, New York	xxi+205 pp.	W26.5 H4335
Medical information on the Internet: a guide for health professionals, 2nd ed.	R. Kiley	1999	Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh   New York	xiv+160 pp +CD-ROM.	W26.5 K55m
Medicine & the information age	J.S. Rose	1998	American College of Physician Executives, Tampa (FL)	xx+278 pp.	W26.55 I4 R796m
Ethics, computing, and medicine: informatics and the transformation of health care	K.W. Goodman (ed.)	1998	Cambridge University Press (Cambridge)	x+180 pp.	W26.5 Et3 (MGH)
Handbook of medical informatics,	J.H. van Bemmel & M.A. Musen (eds.)	1997	Springer (Houten)	xxxiv+621 pp.	W26.5 H2365

Selected Web sites on medical informatics

• Handbook of Medical Informatics: the Web companion to the printed handbook, edited by J.H. van Bemmel & M.A. Musen, is available from Rotterdam (The Netherlands) and from Stanford (U.S.A.)
• International Medical Informatics Association
• American Medical Informatics Association