Unit II Biomedical Informatics Applications

Assistant Professor and Associate Director, Division of Clinical Chemistry and Associate Director, Laboratory Information Services, Department of Pathology, The University of

To begin, it is helpful to define what is meant by “health consumers.” The American Medical Informatics Association, Consumer Health Informatics Working Group, and the

Ethical issues are particularly challenging in the environment of consumer health applications for several reasons: health is important and the stakes are high, consumers are not

4 Although there is an ever-growing number of informatics research areas (e.g., medical informatics, legal informatics, archive and museum informatics, consumer health

This chapter introduces the concepts of telemedicine, telehealth, and consumer health informatics (CHI) and illustrates how maturing computer networks like the Internet make possi-

Although, at present, there is intense interest in the promise of enhanced public health surveillance using information technology to provide near-real-time access to clinical

Natural Language and Text Processing in Biomedicine 312 Carol Friedman and Stephen

John Dustin Buckman Professor and Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Director, Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science