1st Edition

Information Discovery on Electronic Health Records

Edited By Vagelis Hristidis Copyright 2010
331 Pages 64 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

331 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

Exploiting the rich information found in electronic health records (EHRs) can facilitate better medical research and improve the quality of medical practice. Until now, a trivial amount of research has been published on the challenges of leveraging this information. Addressing these challenges, Information Discovery on Electronic Health Records explores the technology to unleash the data stored... Read more

Overview of XML, Fernando Farfán and Vagelis Hristidis

Electronic Health Records (EHRs), Fernando Farfán, Ramakrishna Varadarajan, and Vagelis Hristidis

Overview of Information Discovery Techniques on EHRs, Vagelis Hristidis

Data Quality and Integration Issues in EHRs, Ricardo João Cruz-Correia, Pedro Pereira Rodrigues, Alberto Freitas, Filipa Canario Almeida, Rong Chen, and Altamiro Costa-Pereira

Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues for EHR Data Protection, Reid Cushman

Searching EHRs, Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Fernando Farfán, and Redmond Burke

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery on EHRs, Donald J. Berndt, Monica Chiarini Tremblay, and Stephen L. Luther

Privacy-Preserving Information Discovery on EHRs, Li Xiong, James Gardner, Pawel Jurczyk, and James J. Lu

Real-Time and Mobile Physiological Data Analysis, Daniele Apiletti, Elena Baralis, Giulia Bruno, Tania Cerquitelli, and Alessandro Fiori

Medical Image Segmentation, Xiaolei Huang and Gavriil Tsechpenakis

Biography

Vagelis Hristidis is an assistant professor in the School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University in Miami.

… the topics covered in Information Discovery on Electronic Health Records are both timely and important. This combination textbook and reference guide covers topics basic to health care information technology. … incorporating the capabilities described in this book into future EMR systems is critical for meeting the goals of improving health care quality and decreasing costs. …
—David Chou, JAMA, September 2010