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After reading this chapter, you should know the answers to these questions:
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Why is information management a central issue in biomedical research and clinical practice?
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What are integrated information management environments, and how might we expect them to affect the practice of medicine, the promotion of health, and biomedical research in coming years?
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What do we mean by the terms medical computer science, medical computing, biomedical informatics, clinical informatics, nursing informatics, bioinformatics, and health informatics?
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Why should health professionals, life scientists, and students of the health professions learn about biomedical informatics concepts and informatics applications?
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How has the development of modern computing technologies and the Internet changed the nature of biomedical computing?
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How is biomedical informatics related to clinical practice, biomedical engineering, molecular biology, decision science, information science, and computer science?
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How does information in clinical medicine and health differ from information in the basic sciences?
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How can changes in computer technology and the way medical care is financed influence the integration of medical computing into clinical practice?
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Shortliffe, E.H., Blois†, M.S. (2006). The Computer Meets Medicine and Biology: Emergence of a Discipline. In: Shortliffe, E.H., Cimino, J.J. (eds) Biomedical Informatics. Health Informatics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-36278-9_1
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