Edited by Willy Palm Irene A. Glinos Bernd Rechel Pascal Garel Reinhard Busse Josep Figueras 2013 Providing highly specialized and complex health care of quality is a challenge faced by all health systems. Medicine is constantly evolving and more innovation and technologies are now used in diagnostic techniques. A good response to this challenge therefore requires careful resource […]

Nilmini Wickramasinghe ● Rajeev K Bali Reima Suomi ● Stefan Kirn Editors 2012 Healthcare delivery globally is at a cross roads. In particular, the U.S. healthcare system has been noted as being significantly more costly than any other OECD country (Wickramasinghe et al. 2008a). Moreover, the use of healthcare services in the U.S. is below the OECD median […]

Edward H. Shortliffe Editor 2006 Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine Just as banks cannot practice modern banking without financial software, and airlines cannot manage modern travel planning without shared databanks of flight schedules and reservations, it has become impossible to practice modern medicine, or to conduct modern biological research, without information technologies. Life scientists are generating data at […]

Daniel F. Cowan Editor 2005 This book developed out of a course in laboratory informatics for residents in training in pathology and for fellows in the clinical laboratory sciences given over a period of years. The topics covered and the approach taken were strongly influenced by real-life experience.

MIT Critical Data 2016 Diagnostic and therapeutic technologies continue to evolve rapidly, and both individual practitioners and clinical teams face increasingly complex decisions. Unfortunately, the current state of medical knowledge does not provide the guidance to make the majority of clinical decisions on the basis of evidence.