Context and Value of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Public health informatics (PHI) is one branch of the larger field of biomedical and health informatics (BMHI) (Hersh, BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 9:24, 2009). In this chapter, we will define the terminology of BMHI and identify where other branches of the fi
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J.A. Magnuson Paul C. Fu, Jr. Editors
Public Health Informatics and Information Systems 2nd Edition
Health Informatics
J.A. Magnuson • Paul C. Fu, Jr. Editors
Public Health Informatics and Information Systems Second Edition
Editors J.A. Magnuson, PhD Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology Oregon Health and Science University Portland, OR USA
Paul C. Fu, Jr., MD, MPH Pediatrics Department Health and Policy and Management Los Angeles County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Torrance, CA USA
ISBN 978-1-4471-4236-2 ISBN 978-1-4471-4237-9 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-4237-9 Springer London Heidelberg New York Dordrecht
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Foreword
As a medical student in the early 1980s, I was rather scandalized to discover that my required textbook of medicine did not provide standard treatment protocols for even the most common of medical conditions. What good is a textbook, I asked myself, if it does not provide even this most basic treatment information? The textbook in question was the (then) current edition of the Principles and Practices of Medicine, ori
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