ABSTRACT

Too often, healthcare workers are led to believe that medical informatics is a complex field that can only be mastered by teams of professional programmers. This is simply not the case. With just a few dozen simple algorithms, easily implemented with open source programming languages, you can fully utilize the medical information contained in clini

part |2 pages

PART I

chapter |18 pages

1PTT FILES

ARSING AND RANSFORMING

chapter |32 pages

2CHAPTER UTILITY SCRIPTS

TILITY CRIPTS

chapter |26 pages

4CHAPTER INDEXING TEXT

part |2 pages

PART II M EDICAL D ATA R ESOURCES

chapter |18 pages

S H (M

ATIONAL IBRARY EDICINE EDICAL UBJECT EADINGS

chapter |8 pages

ICD

NTERNATIONAL LASSIFICATION OF ISEASES

chapter 7|16 pages

SEER

The Cancer Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program

chapter 8|20 pages

OMIM

The Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man

chapter 10|14 pages

1CHAPTER 0 T

AXONOMY

chapter 11|20 pages

1CHAPTER 1 DEVELOPMENTAL LINEAGE CLASSIFICATION AND TAXONOMY OF NEOPLASMS

EVELOPMENTAL INEAGE LASSIFICATION AND AXONOMY OF EOPLASMS

chapter 12|16 pages

1CHAPTER 2U.S. CENSUS FILES

ENSUS

chapter 13|14 pages

C PMF

ISEASE ONTROL REVENTION ORTALITY

part |2 pages

PART III P RIMARY T ASKS OF M EDICAL I NFORMATICS

chapter 14|10 pages

A

UTOCODING

chapter 15|8 pages

T SDCT

CRUBBER FOR EIDENTIFYING ONFIDENTIAL

chapter 16|10 pages

W PAGES AND CGI S

CRIPTS

chapter 17|12 pages

I

NNOTATION

chapter 18|18 pages

D D DATA , U

ESCRIBING

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PART IV M EDICAL D ISCOVERY

chapter 19|6 pages

C STUDY

Emphysema Rates

chapter 20|10 pages

C STUDY

Cancer Occurrence Rates

chapter 21|10 pages

C STUDY

Germ Cell Tumor Rates across Ethnicities

chapter 22|6 pages

C STUDY

Ranking the Death-Certifying Process, by State

chapter 23|14 pages

C STUDY

Data Mashups for Epidemics

chapter 24|6 pages

C STUDY

Sickle Cell Rates

chapter 25|14 pages

C STUDY

Site-Specific Tumor Biology

chapter 26|16 pages

C STUDY

Bimodal Tumors

chapter 27|10 pages

C STUDY

The Age of Occurrence of Precancers