Biomedical informatics /

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Author / Creator:Berman, Jules J.
Imprint:Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett, c2007.
Description:xviii, 459 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6235000
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ISBN:0763741353 (pbk.)
9780763741358
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-391) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. What are biomedical data, and what do we do with them?
  • 2. The data of biomedical informatics
  • 3. Confidential biomedical data
  • 4. Standards for biomedical data
  • 5. Just enough programming
  • 6. Programming common biomedical informatics tasks
  • 7. Biomedical nomenclatures
  • 8. Misbehaving text : dealing with poorly written medical text
  • 9. Autocoding unstructured data (narrative text)
  • 10. Computational methods for de-identification and data scrubbing
  • 11. Cryptography in biomedical informatics
  • 12. Describing data with metadata
  • 13. Simplifying complex data with classifications and ontologies
  • 14. Clinical trials : the informatician lives in a statistical world
  • 15. Distributed computing
  • 16. A practical approach to ethics for biomedical informaticians
  • 17. Grantsmanship for biomedical informaticians
  • 18. References (commented)
  • 19. Appendix
  • 20. Glossary
  • 21. Index of lists
  • 22. Index.