Biomedical informatics : computer applications in health care and biomedicine / [edited by] Edward H. Shortliffe, James J. Cimino

The computer meets medicine and biology : emergence of a discipline -- Biomedical data : their acquisition, storage, and use -- Biomedical decision making : probabilistic clinical 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 -- Electronic health record systems -- Management of information in healthcare organizations -- 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 medical education -- Bioinformatics -- Health care financing and information technology : a historical perspective -- The future of computer applications in biomedicine