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Frontier Discoveries and Innovations in Interdisciplinary Microbiology

This excellent book covers wide-ranging topics in interdisciplinary microbiology, addressing various research aspects and highlighting advanced discoveries and innovations. It presents the fascinating topic of modern biotechnology, including agricultural microbiology, microalgae biotechnology, bio-energy, bioinformatics and metagenomics, environmental microbiology, enzyme technology and marine biology.It presents the most up-to-date areas of microbiology with an emphasis on shedding light on biotechnological …

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Passing the General Surgery Oral Board Exam

In its updated 2nd edition, this book covers concepts frequently addressed in the test, as well as unexpected problems and seemingly benign actions or inactions that could result in a missed diagnosis or misdiagnosis, and a consequent failure to pass the …

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On the Shoulders of Medicine’s Giants: What Today’s Clinicians Can Learn from Yesterday’s Wisdom

Medical history offers us many wise thoughts, a few misguided notions, and a host of intriguing back-stories. On the Shoulders of Medicine’s Giants presents a selection of these, and tells how the words of medicine’s “giants”―such as Hippocrates, Sir William Osler, Francis Weld Peabody, and Elizabeth Kübler-Ross―are relevant to medical science and practice in the 21st century.Which physician was the inspiration for …

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Statistical Analysis of Next Generation Sequencing Data (Frontiers in Probability and the Statistical Sciences)

Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) is the latest high throughput technology to revolutionize genomic research. NGS generates massive genomic datasets that play a key role in the big data phenomenon that surrounds us today. To extract signals from high-dimensional NGS data and make valid statistical inferences and predictions, novel data analytic and statistical techniques are needed. This book contains …

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Managing Technological Change: Organizational Aspects of Health Informatics

 The successful implementation of health information systems in complex health care organizations ultimately hinges on the receptivity and preparedness of the user. Although the Information Age is well underway, user resistance to information systems is still a valid concern facing the informatics community. This book provides effective management strategies to health care administrators for the productive integration and …

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Consumer Health Informatics: Informing Consumers and Improving Health Care

According to the Pew Foundation’s “Internet in American Life Study,” over 60 million Americans per year use the Internet to search for health information. All those concerned with healthcare and how to obtain personally relevant medical information form a large additional target group Many Medical Informatics programs–both in the United States and abroad–include a course in Consumer Health …

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Electronic Healthcare Information Security (Advances in Information Security)

The adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in healthcare is driven by the need to contain costs while maximizing quality and efficiency. However, ICT adoption for healthcare information management has brought far-reaching effects and implications on the spirit of the Hippocratic Oath, patient privacy and confidentiality. A wave of security breaches have led to pressing calls for …

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Principles of Health Interoperability HL7 and SNOMED (Health Informatics)

Joined-up healthcare makes information available when and where it is needed to improve safety, efficiency and effectiveness. Politicians may take interoperability between healthcare computer systems for granted, but it is non-trivial. Healthcare integration projects are notoriously under-estimated and come in over-budget and over-time. Joined-up healthcare depends on standards. The two leading standards are the SNOMED CT, …

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Biomedical Informatics: Discovering Knowledge in Big Data

This book provides a broad overview of the topic Bioinformatics with focus on data, information and knowledge. From data acquisition and storage to visualization, ranging through privacy, regulatory and other practical and theoretical topics, the author touches several fundamental aspects of the innovative interface between Medical and Technology domains that is Biomedical Informatics. Each chapter starts by providing a useful …

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