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Systems engineering approach to medical automation / Robin Felder, Majd Alwan, Mingjun Zhang, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Artech House engineering in medicine & biology series.
- Artech House series, engineering in medicine & biology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Data processing.
- Medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (315 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Artech House, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The book offers you a solid understanding of medical automation principles and the latest applications in the field. You discover how computers and devices can be used to schedule personnel and services, and help maintain a just-in-time, lean, and more affordable medical services. You learn how to automate your pharmacy and laboratory services for maximum profit and minimum turnaround time. Moreover, this forward-looking book helps you determine how nanotechnology is evolving to solve difficult medical challenges.
- Contents:
- Introduction to medical automation
- Human factors issues with automation
- Mathematical modeling for medical automation
- Contact dynamic simulation of micro-/nanoscale maniplation for medical applications
- Modeling and mathematical analysis of swarms of microscopic robots for medical diagnostics
- Medical and biometric identification for pattern recognition and data fusion with quantitative measuring
- Lab-on-a-chip automation of laboratory diagnostics : lipoprotein subclass separation automation
- Clinical laboratory automation
- Pharmacy autmoation technologies
- Automation technologies in the operating room
- Health care supply chain automation
- Process management using information systems : principles and systems
- Telehealth and telemedicine technologies : overview, benefits, and implications
- Automated in-home patient monitoring : geriatric care application
- Connected medicine
- Information technology networks, data management, and electronic medical records.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-59693-165-5
- OCLC:
- 434508399
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