Computer Medical Databases

Author : Morris F. Collen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 085729962X

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Computer Medical Databases by Morris F. Collen Pdf

Chapter 1 offers an overview of the basic computer technology. Each succeeding chapter, describes the problems in medicine, followed by a review in chronological sequence of why and how computers were applied to try to meet these problems. Only the technical aspects of computer hardware, software, and communications are discussed as they are necessary to explain how the technology was applied. This approach generally led to defining the objectives for applications of medical informatics. At the end of each chapter, the author summarizes his personal views and interpretations of the chapter contents. Although the concurrent evolution of medical informatics in Canada, Europe, and Japan certainly influenced workers in the United States, the scope of this historical review is limited to the development of medical informatics within the United States. Furthermore, this review is limited to electronic digital computers; it excludes mechanical, analog, and hybrid computers.

Author : G. Wiederhold
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783642931741

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Databases for Health Care by G. Wiederhold Pdf

Author : Stephen T.C. Wong
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781461555537

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Medical Image Databases by Stephen T.C. Wong Pdf

Medical Image Databases covers the new technologies of biomedical imaging databases and their applications in clinical services, education, and research. Authors were selected because they are doing cutting-edge basic or technology work in relevant areas. This was done to infuse each chapter with ideas from people actively investigating and developing medical image databases rather than simply review the existing literature. The authors have analyzed the literature and have expanded on their own research. They have also addressed several common threads within their generic topics. These include system architecture, standards, information retrieval, data modeling, image visualizations, query languages, telematics, data mining, and decision supports. The new ideas and results reported in this volume suggest new and better ways to develop imaging databases and possibly lead us to the next information infrastructure in biomedicine. Medical Image Databases is suitable as a textbook for a graduate-level course on biomedical imaging or medical image databases, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.

Author : Bruce I. Blum
Publisher : Springer-Verlag
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783662265376

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Clinical Information Systems by Bruce I. Blum Pdf

As its name implies, this book deals with clinical information systems. The clinical information system (or CIS) is an automated system with a long term database containing clinical information used for patient care. This definition excludes business systems (no clinical data), physiological monitoring systems (no long term database), and many research systems (not used in patient care). The theses of this book are (a) that CIS technology is mature, (b) that the CIS will have a major impact upon patient care and the health delivery system, and (c) that the number of commercial systems which now offer these potential benefits is very small. The objective of this book is to establish the above theses and thereby (a) inform both users and developers, (b) increase the demand for more sophisticated products, and finally, (c) provide marketplace incentives to advance the state of the art. The CIS is an application of computer technology for a specific class of problems. Its development requires a knowledge of the technology with an understanding of the application area. As with any tool-based application, the scope of the product will be limited by the capability of the tool. In the case of the CIS, reliable computers with comprehensive database facilities became commercially available in the early 1970s. By the mid 1970s there was a maturation of the literature, and evaluations of 5-years' use began to appear. As will be shown, there have been surprisingly few new ideas introduced since the 1970s.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on Regional Health Data Networks
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780309049955

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Health Data in the Information Age by Institute of Medicine,Committee on Regional Health Data Networks Pdf

Regional health care databases are being established around the country with the goal of providing timely and useful information to policymakers, physicians, and patients. But their emergence is raising important and sometimes controversial questions about the collection, quality, and appropriate use of health care data. Based on experience with databases now in operation and in development, Health Data in the Information Age provides a clear set of guidelines and principles for exploiting the potential benefits of aggregated health dataâ€"without jeopardizing confidentiality. A panel of experts identifies characteristics of emerging health database organizations (HDOs). The committee explores how HDOs can maintain the quality of their data, what policies and practices they should adopt, how they can prepare for linkages with computer-based patient records, and how diverse groups from researchers to health care administrators might use aggregated data. Health Data in the Information Age offers frank analysis and guidelines that will be invaluable to anyone interested in the operation of health care databases.

Author : Carlo Combi,Elpida Keravnou-Papailiou,Yuval Shahar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781441965431

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Temporal Information Systems in Medicine by Carlo Combi,Elpida Keravnou-Papailiou,Yuval Shahar Pdf

Temporal Information Systems in Medicine introduces the engineering of information systems for medically-related problems and applications. The chapters are organized into four parts; fundamentals, temporal reasoning & maintenance in medicine, time in clinical tasks, and the display of time-oriented clinical information. The chapters are self-contained with pointers to other relevant chapters or sections in this book when necessary. Time is of central importance and is a key component of the engineering process for information systems. This book is designed as a secondary text or reference book for upper -undergraduate level students and graduate level students concentrating on computer science, biomedicine and engineering. Industry professionals and researchers working in health care management, information systems in medicine, medical informatics, database management and AI will also find this book a valuable asset.

Author : Arvind Kumar Bansal,Javed Iqbal Khan,S. Kaisar Alam
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000761597

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Introduction to Computational Health Informatics by Arvind Kumar Bansal,Javed Iqbal Khan,S. Kaisar Alam Pdf

This class-tested textbook is designed for a semester-long graduate or senior undergraduate course on Computational Health Informatics. The focus of the book is on computational techniques that are widely used in health data analysis and health informatics and it integrates computer science and clinical perspectives. This book prepares computer science students for careers in computational health informatics and medical data analysis. Features Integrates computer science and clinical perspectives Describes various statistical and artificial intelligence techniques, including machine learning techniques such as clustering of temporal data, regression analysis, neural networks, HMM, decision trees, SVM, and data mining, all of which are techniques used widely used in health-data analysis Describes computational techniques such as multidimensional and multimedia data representation and retrieval, ontology, patient-data deidentification, temporal data analysis, heterogeneous databases, medical image analysis and transmission, biosignal analysis, pervasive healthcare, automated text-analysis, health-vocabulary knowledgebases and medical information-exchange Includes bioinformatics and pharmacokinetics techniques and their applications to vaccine and drug development

Author : G Wiederhold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1981-05-01
Category : Database management
ISBN : 3642931758

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Databases for Health Care by G Wiederhold Pdf

Author : Constantinos Koutsojannis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1536179264

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Medical Knowledge Extraction from Big Data by Constantinos Koutsojannis Pdf

"Data mining refers to the activity of going through big data sets to look for relevant information. As human health care data are the most difficult of all data to collect and their primary direction is the treatment of patients, and secondarily dealing with research, almost the only vindication for collecting medical data is to benefit the disease. All data miners should take into account that Medical Knowledge Extraction is internally connected with the Evidence-Based Medical approach because it uses data for already treated or not patients and there are times that opposites to Guideline Based medical practice. Additonally all researchers should be aware when are dealing with medical databases they may face the possibility that their work will never be accepted or even used from health care professionals if all these obligations will not be correctly addressed from the early beginning. In the present book, one can find after the three introductory chapters, a number of successfully evaluated applications that have been developed after mining approaches in Big or smaller amount (according to the application) of medical Data in different fields of every day clinical practice from teams of experts. The challenging adventure of Medical Knowledge Extraction can be followed by ambitious researchers finally resulting in a successful decision support system, that sometimes is so novel that it will provide new directions for basic or clinical research further that the existed. At least this procedure will save the experience of the best doctors on duty and will help young residents to be better and better"--

Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on Improving the Patient Record
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997-10-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309175340

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The Computer-Based Patient Record by Institute of Medicine,Committee on Improving the Patient Record Pdf

Most industries have plunged into data automation, but health care organizations have lagged in moving patients' medical records from paper to computers. In its first edition, this book presented a blueprint for introducing the computer-based patient record (CPR). The revised edition adds new information to the original book. One section describes recent developments, including the creation of a computer-based patient record institute. An international chapter highlights what is new in this still-emerging technology. An expert committee explores the potential of machine-readable CPRs to improve diagnostic and care decisions, provide a database for policymaking, and much more, addressing these key questions: Who uses patient records? What technology is available and what further research is necessary to meet users' needs? What should government, medical organizations, and others do to make the transition to CPRs? The volume also explores such issues as privacy and confidentiality, costs, the need for training, legal barriers to CPRs, and other key topics.

Author : Lazakidou, Athina A.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781591409830

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Handbook of Research on Informatics in Healthcare and Biomedicine by Lazakidou, Athina A. Pdf

Describes and analyzes recent breakthroughs in healthcare and biomedicine providing comprehensive coverage and definitions of important issues, concepts, new trends and advanced technologies.

Author : Thomas Heinis,Anastasia Ailamaki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1680833480

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Data Infrastructure for Medical Research by Thomas Heinis,Anastasia Ailamaki Pdf

This monograph is an ideal primer for medical and computer science professionals designing and understanding data infrastructure for medical research. It is intended to technical/computer scientists and medical professionals who want to understand the challenges involved

Author : G.T. Meester,F. Pinciroli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789401137201

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Databases for Cardiology by G.T. Meester,F. Pinciroli Pdf

A database is in principle just a large collection of related or separate data, systematically stored in a computer. It should be possible for the data to be easily entered into the database-structure and afterwards also easily read, corrected and processed. The later analysis of data from such a database is greatly enhanced by the availability of special query languages and statistical analysis programs, not only for serial items but also for large combinations of data. Query languages, such as SQL (Structured Query Language) developed especially for these purposes, make databases easily accessible, also to researchers who may not be very well versed in computer programming. The cardiological/medical clinician and researcher of today is of necessity confronted more and more with computer-based data storage. Interest is of course focused primarily on the clinical use of such databases more than on the technical design itself, except for some very specific, personalized applications. For the latter approach, there are at present many software packages commercially available, especially designed for use in the personal computer environment. This book is comprised out of a number of contributions by various authors with differing backgrounds and from many different countries. The editors, being a cardiologist and an information scientist, have strived to achieve an equilibrium between these two fields. The chapters in this book form a cross-section of the many approaches to database design and implementation in the area of cardiology.

Author : Thomas Heinis,Anastassia Ailamaki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1680833499

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Data Infrastructure for Medical Research by Thomas Heinis,Anastassia Ailamaki Pdf

While we are witnessing rapid growth in data across the sciences and in many applications, this growth is particularly remarkable in the medical domain, be it because of higher resolution instruments and diagnostic tools (e.g. MRI), new sources of structured data like activity trackers, the wide-spread use of electronic health records and many others. The sheer volume of the data is not, however, the only challenge to be faced when using medical data for research. Other crucial challenges include data heterogeneity, data quality, data privacy and so on. In this article, we review solutions addressing these challenges by discussing the current state of the art in the areas of data integration, data cleaning, data privacy, scalable data access and processing in the context of medical data. The techniques and tools we present will give practitioners - computer scientists and medical researchers alike - a starting point to understand the challenges and solutions and ultimately to analyse medical data and gain better and quicker insights.

Author : C. J. Armstrong
Publisher : De Gruyter Saur
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Databases
ISBN : UOM:39015032922760

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World Databases in Medicine by C. J. Armstrong Pdf

Includes information on electronically published databases with details of content, size, access and pricing as well as commentary on the major databases.