Chris - Apropos of your message regarding textbooks in medical
informatics, I looked around the AMIA meeting that I just attended
(American Medical Informatics Association) and talked with various
friends who teach Medical Informatics courses in the States to
see what's up.

The first thing to note is that, as of right now, your list appears
to be complete. However, there will be a new version of the text
by Ted Shortliffe et al. coming out in 1999. (The current edition
has been out of date for about four years, although some chapters
show their age more than others. I believe they have all or at least
most of the new or revised chapters in hand, and what they have is
currently being beta-tested at various sites. I attach a copy of
the Table of Contents below.) When I gave a course in medical
informatics to engineering and nursing students at Penn, I used
those chapters that were still up-to-date, and the students found
them well-written and informative.

Another thing is that Stanford Medical Informatics has also put out
a version of their two-week short course on CD-ROM, which I've brought
back information on.

Finally, Peter Szolovits (from MIT) gave what was for me a very
interesting presentation on the MIT/Harvard/Tufts training program
in Medical Informatics. Their program probably has more of a
stress on computer science, AI, and even signal processing than
other programs in the U.S., but I found interesting his perspective
on what aspects of these areas, medical informatics practitioners
would benefit from hands-on experience in.

  Best regards,
    Bonnie Webber
    Chair in Intelligent Systems
    Division of Informatics
    University of Edinburgh

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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 22:50:40 -0800
From: Larry Fagan <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: chapter outline for book


Medical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care
  Draft Outline (2nd Edition)
Estimated length - 800 pages

Editors: Edward H. Shortliffe, MD, PhD
         Leslie E. Perreault, MS
Associate Editors:
         Gio Wiederhold, PhD
         Lawrence M. Fagan, MD, PhD

I. Recurrent Themes in Medical Informatics

1. The Computer Meets Medicine: Emergence of a Discipline

     Edward H. Shortliffe

2. Medical Data: Their Acquisition, Storage, and Use

     Edward H. Shortliffe and G. Octo Barnett

3. Medical Decision Making: Probabilistic Medical Reasoning (last
   revised 10/6/98)

     Douglas K.Owens and Harold C. Sox, Jr.

4. Essential Concepts for Medical Computing

     Gio Wiederhold and Thomas C. Rindfleisch

5. System Design and Engineering (last rev. 9/2/98)

     Gio Wiederhold and Edward H. Shortlife

6. Standards to Support Integration and Data Sharing

     James J. Cimino and W. Edward Hammond

7. The Ethics of Health Informatics: Privacy, Confidentiality, Security,
   and Legal Issues

     Kenneth W. Goodman and Randolph A. Miller

8. System Evaluation and Technology Assessment (last rev. 8/31/98)

     Charles P. Friedman, Douglas K. Owens, and Jeremy C. Wyatt

II. Medical Computing Applications

9. Computer-Based Medical Record Systems (revised 10/9/98)

     Paul C. Tang and Clement J. McDonald

10. Managing Clinical Information in Integrated Delivery Systems (last
    rev. 9/6/98)

     Leslie E. Perreault and Charles Safran

11. Public Health and Consumer Uses of Health Information: Education,
    Research, Policy, Prevention, and Quality Assurance

     Patricia F. Brennan and Andrew M. Friede

12. Patient Care Systems (last rev. 10/29/98)

     Judy G. Ozbolt and Suzanne B. Henry

13. Patient Monitoring Systems

     Reed M. Gardner and M. Michael Shabot

14. Imaging Systems

     Robert A. Greenes and James F. Brinkley

15. Information Retrieval Systems

     William R. Hersh, William M. Detmer, and Mark E. Frisse

16. Clinical Decision-Support Systems

     Mark A. Musen, Yuval Shahar, and Edward H. Shortliffe

17. Educational Applications in the Health Professions (last rev.
   8/28/98)

     Parvati Dev, Edward P. Hoffer, and G. Octo Barnett

18. Bioinformatics

     Russ B. Altman

III. Medical Informatics in the Years Ahead

19. Health-Care Financing: Impact on Health Information Systems

     Sara J. Singer, Alain C. Enthoven, and Alan M. Garber

20. The Future of Computer Applications in Health Care (last rev.
    10/22/98)

     Lawrence M. Fagan









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