Table of Contents

Medical Informatics as a scientific discipline.- Medical vocabulary, terminological resources, health information coding.- The management and dissemination of knowledge in Healthcare.- The representation of the patient data in the health information systems and the electronic medical record.- Medical Image processing: principles, main applications and prospects.- Augmented Medical Interventions : Surgetics and Robotics.- Clinical diagnostic decision making support.- Therapeutic decision making support.- Medico-economic decision making support.- Public health decision making.- Security, legal and ethical aspects of computerized health data.- Clinical Information Systems in hospitals.- Shared medical records.- Computerizing the medical office.- Computerizing the dental office.- Computerizing the pharmacy.- The development of E-Health.- Translational Medical Informatics.- Human Factors and Ergonomics for Medical Informatics.

About the Author

Alain Venot is Professor of Health Informatics at University Paris 13 (France), Head of Health Informatics & Bioinformatics Laboratory (LIM&BIO EA 3969), and Chief of the Department of Public Health at Hospitals Avicenne & Jean Verdier & René Muret (Paris, France).