This 5th edition of this essential textbook continues to meet the growing demand of practitioners, researchers, educators, and students for a comprehensive introduction to key topics in biomedical informatics and the underlying scientific issues that sit at the intersection of biomedical science, patient care, public health and information technology (IT). Emphasizing the conceptual basis of the field rather than technical details, it provides the tools for study required for readers to comprehend, assess, and utilize biomedical informatics and health IT. It focuses on practical examples, a guide to additional literature, chapter summaries and a comprehensive glossary with concise definitions of recurring terms for self-study or classroom use.

Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine reflects the remarkable changes in both computing and health care that continue to occur and the exploding interest in the role that IT must play in carecoordination and the melding of genomics with innovations in clinical practice and treatment.  New and heavily revised chapters have been introduced on human-computer interaction, mHealth, personal health informatics and precision medicine, while the structure of the other chapters has undergone extensive revisions to reflect the developments in the area. The organization and philosophy remain unchanged, focusing on the science of information and knowledge management, and the role of computers and communications in modern biomedical research, health and health care.

Biomedical Informatics: The Science and the Pragmatics

Biomedical Data: Their Acquisition, Storage, and Use
Biomedical Decision Making: Probabilistic Clinical Reasoning
Cognitive Science and Biomedical Informatics
Computer Architectures for Health Care and Biomedicine
Software Engineering for Health Care and Biomedicine
Standards in Biomedical Informatics
Natural Language Processing in Health Care and Biomedicine
Biomedical Imaging Informatics
Ethics and Biomedical and Health Informatics: Users, Standards, and Outcomes
Evaluation of Biomedical and Health Information Resources
Electronic Health Record Systems
The Health Information Infrastructure
Management of Information in Health Care Organizations
Patient-Centered Care Systems
Public Health Informatics
Consumer Health Informatics and Personal Health Records
Telehealth
Patient Monitoring Systems
Imaging Systems in Radiology
Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries
Clinical Decision-SupportSystems
Computers in Health Care Education
Bioinformatics
Translational Bioinformatics
Clinical Research Informatics
Health Information Technology Policy
The Future of Informatics in Biomedicine.