Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine

by Edward H. Shortliffe (Editor)

No markings on book at all, book is brand new. Did not use it for class.

Genres: Science, Informatics

991 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Edward ("Ted") Hance Shortliffe (born 1947) is a Canadian-born American biomedical informatician, physician, and computer scientist. Shortliffe is a pioneer in the use of artificial intelligence in medicine. He was the principal developer of the clinical expert system MYCIN, one of the first rule-based artificial intelligence expert systems, which obtained clinical data interactively from a physician user and was used to diagnose and recommend treatment for severe infections. While never used in practice (because it preceded the era of local-area networking and could not be integrated with patient records and physician workflow), its performance was shown to be comparable to and sometimes more accurate than that of Stanford infectious disease faculty. This spurred the development of a wide range of activity in the development of rule-based expert systems, knowledge representation, belief nets and other areas, and its design greatly influenced the subsequent development of computing in medicine.

He is also regarded as a founder of the field of biomedical informatics, and in 2006 received one of its highest honors, the Morris F. Collen Award given by the American College of Medical Informatics.

Reviews

[Lilli · Rating 3 out of 5]

Probably the best overview of the BMI field.

[Conlon Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ted Shortliffe, the editor, is one of the countries leading experts and helped create the field. I was the Director of Biomedical Informatics at UF, creating the program for the university. Ted was on our advicory committee.

Ted is great. The book is not. It's good. But overly long and overly complex to serve as an intro to the field. The authors are each the best in their respective area, and several others advised me, and.or were known to me and colleagues in various endeavors.

And I feel the title is a bit old-fashioned. Biomedical informatics is more about data than applications. There is work to do in applicaations, but collecting and representing data suitable for medical decision-making (human or AI) is where its at.

[Zhifei Ge · Rating 5 out of 5]

It basically opens my eyes up to see the forest, when I've been staring at a tree for years.

[Afrooz Arzehgar · Rating 4 out of 5]

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