Medical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care

Summary of Preface

Summary of Chapter 1: The Computer Meets Medicine: Emergence of a Discipline

Integrated Information Management Scenario

Terminology

Terminology (cont’d)

Historical Perspective

Historical Perspective (cont’d)

Relationship to Medical Science and Practice

Relationship to Biomedical Engineering

Relationship to Computer Science

Nature of Medical Information

Integrating Medical Computing and Medical Practice: Factors

Summary of Chapter 2: Medical Data: Their Acquisition, Storage, and Use

Medical Data

Types of Medical Data

Data Collection and Recording

Uses of Medical Data

Weaknesses of the Traditional Medical-Record System

Weaknesses (cont’d)

Structure of Medical Data

Data-to-knowledge Spectrum

Strategies of Medical Data Selection and Use

Relationship Between Data and Hypotheses: Terminology

Predictive Value

The Computer and Medical Data Collection