This book focuses on the role of computers in the provision of medical services. It provides both a conceptual framework and a practical approach for the implem
As director of a training program in medical informatics, I have found that one of the most frequent inquiries from graduate students is, "Although I am happy w
The practice of modern medicine and biomedical research requires sophisticated information technologies with which to manage patient information, plan diagnosti
Beginning with a survey of fundamental concepts associated with data integration, knowledge representation, and hypothesis generation from heterogeneous data se
This second edition of a pioneering technical work in biomedical informatics provides a very readable treatment of the deep computational ideas at the foundatio