Published October, 2011
By Louis M. Abbey and John L. Zimmerman
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Health Informatics
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Dentistry today is changing because of new knowledge networks based on electronic technology. More general topics cover the impact of dental informatics on dentistry training programs, the dental manufacturing industries and insurance.

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Published October, 2011
By Morris F. Collen
Publisher: Springer (Springer London Ltd)
Series: Health Informatics
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Chapter 1 offers an overview of the basic computer technology. 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.

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Published October, 2011
By Lawrence L. Weed, L.M. Abbey, K.A. Bartholomew, C.S. Burger, H.D. Cross, R.Y. Hertzberg, P.D. Nelson, R.G. Rockefeller, S.C. Schimpff, C.C. Weed, Lawrence Weed and W.K. Yee
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Health Informatics
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Knowledge Coupling discusses the premises upon which the coupling of knowledge to every action is based in the practice of medicine, as well as why these premises must change. The work examines the new roles and skills that will be demanded of both patients and health care providers within the system based on these new premises.

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Published September, 2011
By Patricia Flatley Brennan, Sid J. Schneider, Elizabeth Tornquist and Patricia F. Brennan
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Health Informatics
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This series is intended for students and practitioners of the health profes sions who are seeking to expand their knowledge of computers in health care.

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Published August, 2011
By Gondy Leroy
Publisher: Springer (Springer London Ltd)
Series: Health Informatics
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This book provides a practical, hands-on guide to conducting user studies in informatics. The book is intended for advanced undergraduate students, beginning graduate students and as a refresher for any researcher evaluating the usefulness of informatics for people by doing user studies.

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Published July, 2011
By Sajeesh Kumar and Helen Snooks
Publisher: Springer (Springer London Ltd)
Series: Health Informatics
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Written by experts from around the globe (USA, Europe, Australia and Asia) this book explains technical issues, digital information processing and collective experiences from practitioners in different parts of the world practicing a wide range of telenursing applications including telenursing research by professionals in the field.

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Published June, 2011
By Bruce Schatz, Richard B. Berlin, Bruce R. Schatz and Richard B. Berlin Jr.
Publisher: Springer (Springer London Ltd)
Series: Health Informatics
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The first systematic survey of Healthcare Infrastructure, this book describes the inevitable future of health systems. This book outlines how the health of populations will be measured at the level of individuals, combining engineering and medicine to support viable health systems for the first time.

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Published May, 2011
By Prakash M. Nadkarni
Publisher: Springer (Springer London Ltd)
Series: Health Informatics
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While the use of database technology is ubiquitous throughout IT (and health IT in particular), it is not generally appreciated that, as a database increases in scope, certain designs are far superior to others.

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Published April, 2011
By Christoph U. Lehmann, George R. Kim, Kevin B. Johnson and Christoph Lehmann
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Health Informatics
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As information technologies-electronic health records (EHRs), personal health records (PHRs), computerized physician order entry (CPOE)-and standards (HL7) are developed to improve the quality of health care, it is imperative for policy makers and pediatricians to be aware of their impact on pediatric care and child health.

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Published December, 2010
By William Hersh
Publisher: Springer (Springer New York)
Series: Health Informatics
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The third edition of this book reaches across disciplines and is the first book in the market to cover searching from a biomedical perspective. Changes to this edition include a new chapter and a new focus on areas related to information retrieval systems.

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