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The challenge of this century is to develop and introduce information technology for the improvement of quality and efficiency of health care. Telematics applications will focus on the patient and support evidence-based health informatics, will provide generic medical information for health care professionals and citizens, and support disease management as well as case management. Biometry and Epidemiology continuously contribute to the progress in medicine by focussing on risk assessment, prevention, improvements in therapy, drug surveillance and safety, and by providing a rational synthesis for evidence. Presentations, demonstrations, tutorials and other contributions of Medical Informatics as well as the methodological contributions of Biometry and Epidemiology are covering an important number of topics. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Chemistry: Foundations and Applications, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 478 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.

“Chemistry: Foundations and Application” is an accessible four-volume set that covers chemistry’s laws, processes, applications and sub-disciplines, reviews the history of the field, including modern research and practical applications, and includes biographies of scientists past and present. Varied topics that examine and explain chemistry's many branches, including inorganic, industrial, atmospheric and computational chemistry, and biotechnology allow students and general-interest readers alike to explore the myriad ways in which chemistry plays an important role in daily life.

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Integrating various technologies with informational systems provides vast improvements to the overall research and development that occur in the biopharmaceutical industry. One of the first books to explore this area, Functional Informatics in Drug Discovery examines all aspects of technology integration and information flow in a biopharmaceutical enterprise and outlines the specific technologies used at various stages of drug development.

With contributions from leaders in academia, information technology, and the pharmaceutical industry, each chapter illustrates how a particular area of biological science can benefit from the tools of informatics. The book first looks at intelligent automation, neurally based computational tools, and pharmacodynamic (PD) biomarkers. It then reviews a variety of novel technologies and approaches presently used in drug discovery at Johnson & Johnson. The text also describes how informatics can advance antibody technology and drug development for oncology. After focusing on forward genetic and reverse genetic strategies to identify relevant target genes for drug discovery, the book explains proteomic expression profiling and explores the application of laser microdissection in transcriptomics.

Taking a systematic approach, this volume examines the impact of informatics tools on various areas in biopharmaceuticals by presenting in-depth analyses of emerging trends and future opportunities. ... Read more

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In recent years, guidelines and protocols have gained support as the vehicles for promoting best practices in clinical medicine. They offer the possibilities of reducing unwarranted practice variations, of containing cost while maintaining quality of care, and of defining standards of care for quality assurance purposes. These promises have led to an explosion of guideline publications. Yet studies have shown that dissemination and effective use of guidelines in clinical care remains a major bottleneck. A number of researchers have developed different technologies for delivering computerized guidelines in clinical care. These technologies range from alerts and reminders to knowledge-based systems, information-retrieval systems, and others. The tasks to which guidelines have been applied include classic clinical decision support, workflow management, quality assurance, and resource-requirement estimates. The research has spanned several communities (information retrieval, artificial intelligence, medical informatics, software engineering, clinical medicine), but unfortunately, there has been little cross-fertilization between the communities working in this area. This publication brings together researchers from different communities to examine cutting-edge approaches to guideline modeling and application development and to consider how different communities can leverage each other's strengths.

IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields.

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Health technology becomes the center of healthcare systems strategic planning process. Developing a clear vision of the future of health technology and smart investment in technology are the critical success factors. Healthcare Executives need to develop a vision of future health technology to lead effectively in the 21st century.

Future of Health Technology helps to develop this clear vision of the future and it assists in smart planning of investments in health technology for those involved in setting health systems strategy for the 21st century.Future of Health Technology provides and inspiring and comprehensive vision of the future of health technology by looking at the ways to advance (1) medical technologies, (2) health information infrastructure, and (3) intellectual leadership. It also explores new technology creation and adoption process including the impact of rapidly evolving technologies.

People discover and respond to the future as much as they plan it. Health systems with the clear vision of future technology will win. ... Read more

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Cybertherapy, the integration of telehealth technologies with the Internet and shared virtual reality, is used for two reasons: either because there is no alternative, or because it is in some sense better than traditional medicine. Nevertheless, the benefits of cybertherapy, due to the variety of its applications and their uneven development, are not self-evident. However, the emergence of cybertherapy is supporting the cost-effectiveness of certain applications, such as assessment, rehabilitation and therapy in clinical psychology and neuroscience. Its key advantage is the possibility of sharing different media and different health care tools in a simple to use and easily accessible Interface. To date, some cybertherapy applications have improved the quality of health care, and later they will probably lead to substantial cost savings. However, cybertherapy is not simply a technology but a complex technological and relational process. In this sense, clinicians and health care providers that want to successfully exploit cybertherapy need to give significant attention to clinical issues, technology, ergonomics, human factors and organizational changes in the structure of the relevant health service. The goal of this volume is to analyze the processes by which cybertherapy applications will contribute to the delivery of state-of-the-art health services. Particular attention is given to the clinical use of virtual reality technology. More in detail, this volume aims at supporting clinicians and scientists, interested in the cybertherapy innovative approach, providing them clinical protocols for the treatment of eating disorders, social phobias, panic disorders and sexual dysfunctions.

IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields.

Some of the areas we publish in:

-Biomedicine
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-Artificial intelligence
-Databases and information systems
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-Nanotechnology
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-All aspects of physics
-E-governance
-E-commerce
-The knowledge economy
-Urban studies
-Arms control
-Understanding and responding to terrorism
-Medical informatics
-Computer Sciences ... Read more

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The new, 3^rd edition is an updated version of the best-seller earlier books. It includes about 56% more words than the 1,392-page 2^nd edition of 2003. The number of illustrations increased to almost 2,000 and their quality has improved by design and four colors. Cross-references among entries are expanded. The statements are supported by references; more than 14,000 journal papers and more than 3,000 books are listed. The book includes ~1,800 current databases and web servers. Retractions and corrigenda are pointed out.

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Outstanding Encyclopedia!
I own the two previous editions yet I have found the 3rd edition worth purchasing. It is much improved, updated and a large number of new entries were added.

Many of the entries were expanded.As examples: the entry for acquired immunodeficiency has increased from three and a half pages to eight pages and includes now recent references published in 2007 and new figures in color. Adeno-associated virus entry was expanded from a half page to almost two pages.Alzheimer disease is discussed on two pages rather than on one. Angiogenesis grew about five fold. Discussions of various aspects of cancer are expanded now to nine and half pages.

Chromosome territories are a new entry and the concepts are illustrated with very beautiful color figures.The chart for confidence intervals is clear. The entry of dog genome is succinct yet informative.Essential features of evolution are discussed on nine pages with very good diagrams.Genetic networks are represented on four pages with very illuminating figures and the basic principles of networks are discussed separately at several other cross-referenced entries. The much-expanded essay on hereditary genius is very enjoyable. The new illustrations of human artificial chromosomes are great.

The new edition retained and expanded on all the classical concepts of basic genetics, genomics and proteomics and updated the entries. The figures are somewhat reduced in size but because of the improvement in reproduction and the use of color they are much better. Because of limitation of space my comments are limited to the 1st volume but the 2nd volume is equally impressive.I whole-heartedly concur with the 30 journal reviews (excerpted at the end) that the best became now better. All in all I find this Encyclopedia far the best among even the much higher priced works. ... Read more

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A collection of expository papers on major current issues in computer science and computer technology by leading researchers in the field. Half look back at the achievements of the last decade, and half expose open problems and develop visions for the next decade. Softcover. ... Read more

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This book provides an integrated treatment of the structure and function of nucleic acids, proteins, and glycans, including thorough coverage of relevant computational biochemistry.

The text begins with an introduction to the biomacromolecules, followed by discussion of methods of isolation and purification, physiochemical and biochemical properties, and structural characteristics. The next section of the book deals with sequence analysis, analysis of conformation using spectroscopy, chemical synthesis, and computational approaches. The following chapters discuss biomolecular interactions, enzyme action, gene transmission, signal transduction, and biomacromolecular informatics. The author concludes with presenting the latest findings in genomics, proteomics, glycomics, and biomacromolecular evolution.

This text is an invaluable resource for research professionals wishing to move into genomics, proteomics, and glycomics research. It is also useful for students in biochemistry, molecular biology, bioengineering, biotechnology, and bioinformatics. ... Read more

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Text provides an introduction to the field of protein informatics. Emphasizes mathematical and computational methods to tackle the central problems of alignment, phylogenetic reconstruction, and prediction and sampling of protein structure. For researchers and practitioners. ... Read more

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Healthcare is a major candidate for improvement in any vision of the kinds of "information highways" and "information societies" that are now being visualised. The (interactive) communication between healthcare providers and their patients or other healthcare providers regardless of geographic distance, namely telemedicine, will become of central importance. The objective of any advanced infrastructure that can be imagined for future healthcare must be to provide a global uniform level of healthcare. To facilitate the possibilities for any international collaboration standardised approaches must be adopted. This book has been mainly written for specialists, practitioners, scientists and managers in the new growing area of health information technologies. It is particularly relevant for those people - a large increasing number - who bridge and integrate knowledges in medicine (basic and clinical) and advanced technologies such as IT. The intended audience is broad and interdisciplinary; biomedical engineers, medical practitioners interested in the advanced IT infrastructures applied to medicine, computer scientists, academic professionals and graduate students, health care managers, standardization bodies, industrial engineers: designers and planners of innovative health care technologies, specialists in telemedicine, internet computing, computer graphics applications. ... Read more

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The International Symposium on Interdisciplinary Science (ISIS) hosted some of the world's most renowned researchers in physics, life science, and chemistry to discuss the interdisciplinary approaches to complex scientific phenomenon. The collection is a diverse cross-section of ongoing research on cell motility, nonlinear waves, theoretical physics and biochemical complexity.

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This book serves as an introductory book on advanced research topics related to molecular modeling, chemoinformatics, bioinformatics, and pharmacoinformatics.  It can be a text for the post-graduate level students as well as a reference book for researchers.  Both the fundamentals associated with the topics as well as the recent research applications are included in this book. Topics related to molecular modeling (QSAR, molecular docking, pharmacophore mapping, etc.), chemoinformatics, bioinformatics, and pharmacoinformatics are treated as new technologies; meaning there is an introduction and description of the advantages and disadvantages of these methodologies.  The book also covers the applications of these methods in current research. ... Read more

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New computational tools are allowing the generation and collection of chemical data on an unprecedented scale. They bring with them the power to examine patterns in structure and function of molecules, and to exploit this new knowledge to customise molecules, with far reaching implications fordrug design and drug optimisation.Chemical Informatics is a timely and much-needed textbook which provides an accessible and wide-ranging insight into a subject which is rapidly becoming a fundamental part of chemistry today.In the opening chapters, the student is guided through the computational tools on which chemical informatics is based, explaining the nomenclature which is used, how databases can be searched, and what the information retrieved can tell us in terms of chemical properties: molecular structure andfunction. The book then goes on to describe the many ways in which chemical informatics is being applied to further our understanding of various areas of chemistry, including chemical structure, biological chemistry, thermodynamics, and kinetics.Drawing upon currently available chemical databases, and encouraging students to explore the subject in a hands-on manner, Chemical Informatics supports and encourages the understanding of the many powerful computational tools of chemical informatics in a way that is both relevant to and stimulatingfor the reader. A vital resource for all students wishing to gain an insight into one of the most important new tools available for chemical research today.Online Resource Centre- Figures from the book available to download, to facilitate lecture preparation- Online glossary of key terms, to help students master the terminology used- Links to the key chemical informatics databases, giving students ready access to these additional resources ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Informatics," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Informatics in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Informatics when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Informatics, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Informatics," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Informatics in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Informatics when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Informatics, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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This book highlights all aspects of laboratory informatics, with a focus on information management and the corresponding hardware and technical processes involved. In addition to a comprehensive introduction on laboratory informatics, the book emphasizes the importance of information and resource management as opposed to simply covering the role of computers that support the information system.

As a Professor of Pathology and the Director of Laboratory Information Services at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Dr. Cowan has witnessed the shift in focus in the laboratory from the information generation to information management, and increasing resource limitations demand a higher level of management precision than can be gained from manual methods. The American Board of Pathology now requires an increasing sophistication in information management from candidates for certification. Thus, this book is intended for pathologists and residents in pathology, clinical laboratory scientists, and laboratory and information managers.

Following the broad-based introduction on laboratory informatics, the book's topics include: computer basics; development and validation of the laboratory information system; computer networks; security and confidentiality on computer systems and networks; total cost of ownership; essential software; interfaces; process modeling; artificial intelligence and expert systems; bar coding in the laboratory; image analysis and computer-assisted quantitation; and telepathology. ... Read more

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Solid Informatics Text, should be mandated for all residents
Until very recently, informatics is something pathologists typically learned by need or by personal desire.When I was a resident over 20 yrs ago, it was mainframes, and Anatomic Pathology was essentially univolved in informatics.Unfortuneately, Anatomic Pathologists largely are decades behind in informatics, which will become a major detriment in the coming Molecular age.This should be required reading for all residents in pathology and most Anatomic Pathologists.Informatics is here to stay...and if you do not start paying attention you will be left in the dust. I applaude Dr. Cowan and hope others begin to publish other works in this area, particularly related to Anatomic Pathology. ... Read more