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 a rate that defies traditional paper-and-pencil methods for information management and data analysis.