From Patient Data to Medical Knowledge: The Principles and Practice of Health Informatics

1 Introduction.

2 Reading and writing patient records.

3 Creation of medical knowledge.

4 Access to medical knowledge.

Part Two: The Principles of Health Informatics.

5 Representation.

6 Logic.

7 Clinical terms.

8 Knowledge representation.

9 Standards in health informatics.

10 Probability and decision-making.

11 Probability and learning from data.

Part Three: Achieving Change.

12 Information technology and organisational transformation.

13 Achieving change through information.

14 Achieving change through information technology.

15 Conclusions.

Index.