Health Care in the Information Society : Volume 1 - from Adventure of Ideas to Anarchy of Transition.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ingram, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (512 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2023.

Summary:

"In this fascinating book David Ingram traces the history of information technology and health informatics from its pioneers in the middle of the twentieth century to its latest developments. The book is distinctive in its broad scope and coverage and as the eyewitness account of an author who became the first UK professor appointed with the mission to bridge information technology with everyday medicine, health, and care. In this role, he has been a co-founder and leader of two rapidly growing initiatives, openEHR and OpenEyes, which stem from international collaborations of universities, health services and industries. These open source and open platform technologies have struck a widely resonant chord worldwide through their focus on community interest endeavours and open access to their methods and outputs. Set against the history of extremely costly, burdensome, and serially unsuccessful top-down attempts of governments to tackle the domain, the book argues for a greater focus on shared endeavours of this kind, contributing towards a standardized care information utility that incorporates methods and resources evolved, shared, and sustained in the public domain. As information technologies are now at the very core of health care, shaping the relationship between medical services and communities, professions, organisations and industries this book is important reading for politicians, health care academics, administrators and providers, and to anybody interested in the future of health services in the digital age."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Intro

Author's Biography

Preface

Prologue

PART ONE-ADVENTURE OF IDEAS

1. Introduction-Connecting for Health

2. Knowledge, Language and Reason-From Ancient Times to the Information Age

3. Observation and Measurement-From Cubits to Qubits

4. Models and Simulations-The Third Arm of Science

5. Information and Engineering-The Interface of Science and Society

Acknowledgements

Donors

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PART ONE-ADVENTURE OF IDEAS 1. Introduction-Connecting for Health

Information and Health Care-A History of Connections

An 80:20 Landscape View-The Structure of the Book

A 2020 Portrait View-People and Ideas

Transition and Anarchy

From Physics to Biology

From Mathematics to Informatics

A Halfway View

Parenthesis-Audience

Theory of Knowledge

Libraries and their Classification of Knowledge

Historical Origins

Enumerative and Faceted Classification

The Colon Classification of Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan The UNESCO Broad System of Ordering (BSO) for Documents and Books

Languages and their Expression and Communication of Knowledge

Learning a Language

Language and Machine

Precision of Language

Formalism of Language

The Language of Mathematics and Logic

Logic and Reasoning with Knowledge

Verbal and Mathematical Reasoning

Computational Reasoning

Frame Logic

Description Logic and the Web Ontology Language (OWL)

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Medical Language and Computation

Natural Language and Medicine

Nomenclature and Terminology SNOMED™-Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine

GALEN-Generalized Architecture for Languages, Encyclopaedias and Nomenclatures in Medicine

Further Notable Medical Language and Terminology Initiatives

UMLS-Uniform Medical Language System

MeSH-Medical Subject Headings

ICD-International Classification of Diseases

LOINC-Logical Observation, Identifiers, Names and Codes

ICPC-International Classification of Primary Care

Two Illustrious Pioneers

Martin Severs

Alan Rector

Medical Knowledge Bases

Pioneering Examples

Heuristic Dendral-Analyzing Mass Spectra MYCIN-Prescribing Antimicrobial Therapy

PROforma-Modelling Clinical Decision-making Processes

The Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA)

Knowledge, Information and Data

Parenthesis-Traction

Datum as 'Omnuscle'

Observation and Measurement

Number and Logic

Symbol and Code

Ethics

Philosophy and Natural Science

Biological Variability

Clinical Measurement

Measurement and Professional Practice

Measurement and Personal Health Care

Science and Computation

Data

Record.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-80064-953-3

1-80064-954-1

OCLC:

1410495971