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Zusatztext "Comprehensive. Timely. Readable. Interesting. Useful as a textbook and/or reference. Relevant. Highly recommended... It is this reviewer's opinion that this text is useful as a textbook and/or reference. It could easily serve the purpose as a textbook for an undergraduate biomedical engineering elective course! followed by! if possible! a course in database development. The text is highly relevant to engineers working in medicine! and is thus highly recommended." - Paul. H. King! Ph.D.! P.E! Vanderbilt University! IEEE Pulse"...should be required reading for every physician intending to enter a fellowship program in medical informatics! and it is also highly recommended to every doctor and medical student interested in this emerging medical specialty."-JAMA"A simply brilliant introduction to this fast developing field which is comprehensive! up to date! and at the same time sophisticated... It should be read by all healthcare professionals."-2004 BMA Book Awards Judging Panel Informationen zum Autor Edited by Enrico Coiera, PhD, professor and director, Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Klappentext This essential text provides a readable yet sophisticated overview of the basic concepts of information technologies as they apply in healthcare. Spanning areas as diverse as the electronic medical record, searching, protocols, and communications as well as the Internet, Enrico Coiera has succeeded in making this vast and complex area accessible and understandable to the non-specialist, while providing everything that students of medical informatics need to know to accompany their course. Zusammenfassung Highly recommended by JAMA, this essential textbooks provides a comprehensive yet accessible overview of the basic concepts of information and communication technologies in healthcare. Inhaltsverzeichnis Basic Concepts in Informatics. Informatics Skills. Information Systems in Healthcare. Guideline- and Protocol-Based Systems. Communication Systems in Healthcare. Language, Coding and Classification. Clinical Decision Support and Analytics. Specialized Applications for Health Informatics. ...
