From Patient Data to Medical Knowledge The Principles and Practice of Health Informatics
Auteur : Taylor Paul
This book is aimed at all those who want to learn about how IT is transforming the way we think about medicine and medical research. The ideas explored here are taken from research carried out around the world, and are presented by a leading authority in Health Informatics based at University College London.
This comprehensive guide to the field is split into three sections:
- What is health informatics? ? an introduction
- Techniques for representing and analysing patient data and medical knowledge
- Implementation in the clinical setting: changing practice to improve health care outcomes
Whether you are a health professional, NHS manager or IT specialist, this book will help you understand how data can be managed to provide the information you and your colleagues want in the most helpful and accessible way for both you and your patients.
1 Introduction.
2 Reading and writing patient records.
3 Creation of medical knowledge.
4 Access to medical knowledge.
Part Two: The Principles of Health Informatics.
5 Representation.
6 Logic.
7 Clinical terms.
8 Knowledge representation.
9 Standards in health informatics.
10 Probability and decision-making.
11 Probability and learning from data.
Part Three: Achieving Change.
12 Information technology and organisational transformation.
13 Achieving change through information.
14 Achieving change through information technology.
15 Conclusions.
Index.
Date de parution : 03-2006
Ouvrage de 272 p.
15.7x23.5 cm
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