Innovative Designs and Analyses for Small Population Clinical Trials: Development Strategies and Ope

Glantz, Stanton A

Forthofer, Ronald N

Academic Press

<p>Beginning with a survey of fundamental concepts associated with data integration, knowledge representation, and hypothesis generation from heterogeneous data sets, <i>Methods in Biomedical Informatics</i> provides a practical survey of methodologies used in biological, clinical, and public health contexts. These concepts provide the foundation for more advanced topics like information retrieval, natural language processing, Bayesian modeling, and learning classifier systems. The survey of topics then concludes with an exposition of essential methods associated with engineering, personalized medicine, and linking of genomic and clinical data. Within an overall context of the scientific method, <i>Methods in Biomedical Informatics</i> provides a practical coverage of topics that is specifically designed for: (1) domain experts seeking an understanding of biomedical informatics approaches for addressing specific methodological needs&#x3b; or (2) biomedical informaticians seeking an approachable overview of methodologies that can be used in scenarios germane to biomedical research.</p>

Choudhuri, Supratim

<p>Although informatics trainees and practitioners who assume operational computing roles in their organization may have reasonably advanced understanding of theoretical informatics, many are unfamiliar with the practical topics - such as downtime procedures, interface engines, user support, JCAHO compliance, and budgets - which will become the mainstay of their working lives.</p> <p><i>Practical Guide to Clinical Computing Systems</i> 2nd edition helps prepare these individuals for the electronic age of health care delivery. It is also designed for those who migrate into clinical computing operations roles from within their health care organization. A new group of people interested in this book are those preparing for Clinical Informatics board certification in the US. </p> <p>The work provides particular differentiation from the popular first edition in four areas: </p> <ul> <li>40% more content detailing the many practical aspects of clinical informatics.</li> <li>Addresses the specific needs of the Clinical Informatics board certification course - for which it is presently recommended by the ABPM</li> <li>Focus on new tech paradigms including cloud computing and concurrency - for this rapidly changing field.</li></ul>