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Record Nr.

UNISA996465977003316

Titolo

Health Information Science [[electronic resource] ] : First International Conference, HIS 2012, Beijing, China, April 8-10, 2012. Proceedings / / edited by Jing He, Xiaohui Liu, Elizabeth Krupinski, Guandong Xu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2012

ISBN

3-642-29361-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 187 p. 71 illus.)

Collana

Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI ; ; 7231

Disciplina

005.7

Soggetti

Application software

Information storage and retrieval

Database management

Artificial intelligence

Computer communication systems

Health informatics

Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)

Information Storage and Retrieval

Database Management

Artificial Intelligence

Computer Communication Networks

Health Informatics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

International conference proceedings.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and author index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Health Information Science, held in Beijing, China, inĀ April 2012. The 15 full papers presented together with 1 invited paper and 3 industry/panel statements in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers cover all aspects of the health information sciences and the systems that support this health information management and health service



delivery. The scope includes 1) medical/health/biomedicine information resources, such as patient medical records, devices and equipments, software and tools to capture, store, retrieve, process, analyze, optimize the use of information in the health domain, 2) data management, data mining, and knowledge discovery (in health domain), all of which play a key role in decision making, management of public health, examination of standards, privacy and security issues, and 3) development of new architectures and applications for health information systems.