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Synopsis

It's a crucial time in pediatric informatics. As technologies advance, it is ever more crucial to keep abreast of developments as they relate to this key area of medical administration. This brilliant book will be essential reading for a whole raft of admin personnel and informaticians. It is a current digest of the important trends in pediatric informatics, written by leading experts in the field. The book explores how the management of biomedical data, information, and knowledge can optimize and advance child health. The contributors investigate the specific importance of pediatric informatics is derived from the biological, psychological, social and cultural needs that the distinguish children from other populations. These distinctions create complexities in the management of pediatric data and information that make children a vulnerable population and require the development of a new body of knowledge in pediatric informatics.

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À propos de l?auteur

Both authors are pediatricians and informaticians with significant experience and expertise in the field of informatics, and both have trained in informatics through the National Library of Medicine. Dr. Lehmann's expertise resides in the development, application and evaluation of clinical information systems in pediatrics with an emphasis on improving health care quality. He is a faculty member in the Division of Health Information Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Kim's area of expertise lies in ontologies and consumer health informatics. He is also an expert in information retrieval.

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9780387764450: Pediatric Informatics: Computer Applications in Child Health

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ISBN 10 :  0387764453 ISBN 13 :  9780387764450
Editeur : Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 2009
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