Overview
- Provides an in-depth review of the history of the development, use and continued importance of medical informatics to the professional involved
- At the end of each chapter, the author summarizes his personal views and interpretations of the chapter contents.
- Review focused on medical informatics within the United States.
Part of the book series: Health Informatics (HI)
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This is a meticulously detailed chronological record of significant events in the history of medical informatics and their impact on direct patient care and clinical research, offering a representative sampling of published contributions to the field.
The History of Medical Informatics in the United States has been restructured within this new edition, reflecting the transformation medical informatics has undergone in the years since 1990. The systems that were once exclusively institutionally driven – hospital, multihospital, and outpatient information systems – are today joined by systems that are driven by clinical subspecialties, nursing, pathology, clinical laboratory, pharmacy, imaging, and more. At the core is the person – not the clinician, not the institution – whose health all these systems are designed to serve.     Â
A group of world-renowned authors have joined forces with Dr Marion Ball to bring Dr Collen’s incredible work to press. These recognized leaders in medical informatics, many of whom are recipients of the Morris F. Collen Award in Medical Informatics and were friends of or mentored by Dr Collen, carefully reviewed, editing and updating his draft chapters. This has resulted in the most thorough history of the subject imaginable, and also provides readers with a roadmap for the subject well into later in the century.
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Prologue
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Front Matter
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Direct Patient Care
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Front Matter
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Support Systems
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Front Matter
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The History of Medical Informatics in the United States
Editors: Morris F. Collen, Marion J. Ball
Series Title: Health Informatics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6732-7
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-6731-0Published: 19 October 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-7112-6Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-6732-7Published: 08 October 2015
Series ISSN: 1431-1917
Series E-ISSN: 2197-3741
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXII, 755
Topics: Health Informatics