Main description:

Over the years, medical informatics has matured into a true scientific discipline. Fundamental and applied aspects are now taught in various fields of health, including medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing and public health. Medical informatics is also often included in the curricula of many other disciplines, including the life sciences, engineering and economics.

Medical informatics is a complex and rapidly changing discipline. Relatively few books have been published on the subject, and they rapidly become obsolete. This book is the fruit of a collaborative effort between authors teaching medical informatics in France and others who are conducting research in this field. In addition, an international perspective was pursued, as reflected in the inclusion of various developments and actions in both the USA and Europe.

This book is divided into 18 chapters, all of which include learning objectives, recommendations for further reading, exercises and bibliographic references.

Contents:

Medical Informatics as a scientific discipline.- Medical vocabulary, terminological resources, health information coding.- The management and dissemination of knowledge in Healthcare.- The representation of the patient data in the health information systems and the electronic medical record.- Medical Image processing: principles, main applications and prospects.- Augmented Medical Interventions : Surgetics and Robotics.- Clinical diagnostic decision making support.- Therapeutic decision making support.- Medico-economic decision making support.- Public health decision making.- Security, legal and ethical aspects of computerized health data.- Clinical Information Systems in hospitals.- Shared medical records.- Computerizing the medical office.- Computerizing the dental office.- Computerizing the pharmacy.- The development of E-Health.- Translational Medical Informatics.- Human Factors and Ergonomics for Medical Informatics.