From Patient Data to Medical Knowledge : the Principles and Practice of Health Informatics.

From Patient Data to Medical Knowledge : the Principles and Practice of Health Informatics.

How can you make the best use of patient data to improve health outcomes? More and more information about patients' health is stored on increasingly interconnected computer systems. But is it shared in ways that help clinicians care for patients? Could it be better used as a resource for resear...

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Main Author: Taylor, Paul
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
Subjects:
Medical informatics.
Medicine > Data processing.
Medicine > Data processing
Medical informatics
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Table of Contents:
  • From Patient Data to Medical Knowledge: The Principles and Practice of Health Informatics; Contents; Acknowledgements; About this book; Part 1: Three Grand Challenges for Health Informatics; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Reading and writing patient records; Chapter 3 Creation of medical knowledge; Chapter 4 Access to medical knowledge; Part 2: The Principles of Health Informatics; Chapter 5 Representation; Chapter 6 Logic; Chapter 7 Clinical terms; Chapter 8 Knowledge representation; Chapter 9 Standards in health informatics; Chapter 10 Probability and decision-making.
  • Chapter 11 Probability and learning from dataPart 3: Achieving Change; Chapter 12 Information technology and organisational transformation; Chapter 13 Achieving change through information; Chapter 14 Achieving change through information technology; Chapter 15 Conclusions; Index.

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