Medical Informatics

This guide is an introductory list to help locate research materials at the Rowland Medical Library.  Medical informatics is a field of study concerned with the nature of information, medical computing, and the management and use of biomedical information. Medical informatics includes finding new methods for processing and managing knowledge and data within health care and biomedicine.

Guides / Handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries / Selected textbooks / More books / Selected journals / More journals / Selected indexes and abstracts / Selected journal articles / More reference sources / Specialized sources / Selected electronic sources

Guides

Burke, Lillian. Information technology for the health professions.
        W 26.5 B874 2000

Leiner, F. et al. Medical data management: a practical guide.
        WX 173 M424 2003 

Brown, Janis F.  Informatics in health sciences curricula.
        W 26.4 B768 1999

Burke Lillian D. and Barbara Weill.  MediSoft made easy : a step--by-step approach. 
        W 26.5 B875 2004

Rangel Paul and Jeremy Giovannetti. Genomes and databases on the Internet : a practical guide to functions and applications. 
        QH 447 R263 2002

Handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries

Kiel, Joan M. (ed.).  Information technology for the practicing physician.
        W 26.5 I536 2001

Encyclopedia of information systems.
        T 58.5 E629 2003

Rognehaugh, Richard. The health information technology dictionary.
        W 26.5 R636 1999

Selected textbooks

Shortliffe, Edward H., et al (eds.).   Medical Informatics: computer applications in health care and biomedicine, 2nd ed.
        W 26.5  M324 2001

Hersh, William R.  Information retrieval : a health and biomedical perspective. 2nd ed.
        W 26.55 .I4 H47 2003

Deutsch, Tibor, et al.  Decisions, computer and medicines: the informatics of pharmacotherapy.
        QV 26.5 D487 2001

Tan, Joseph K.H.  Health management information systems: methods and practical applications, 2nd ed.
        W 26.5 T264 2001

Anderson James G. and Kenneth W. Goodman.   Ethics and information technology : a case-based approach to a health care system in transition.
       W 26.5 A524 2002  

More books

Search RoMeO Public Access Catalog

Suggested subject headings: Medical Informatics
Medical Informatics Applications
Medical Informatics Computing
Automatic Data Processing
Information Storage and Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Information Systems

Selected journals

More journals

Search RoMeO Public Access Catalog

Suggested subject headings: Medical Informatics - Periodicals
Automatic Data Processing  - Periodicals
Computers - Periodicals
Information Services   - Periodicals
Information Storage and Retrieval - Periodicals
Information Systems - Periodicals

Selected indexes and abstracts

Index Medicus & MEDLINE  (on-campus; off-campus) Database

Suggested subject headings: Medical Informatics
Medical Informatics Applications
Medical Informatics Computing
Information Systems
Diagnosis, Computer Assisted
Therapy, Computer Assisted
Automatic Data Processing
Information Storage and Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence

Selected journal articles

Rogoski, RR. Wireless by design.  Health Management Technology. 2005 Jan; 26(1):14-7.

Hagland M. Safe Ways: Hospitals looking to improve patient safety are turning to CPOE, bar coding and e-prescribing. Healthcare Informatics   2004 Aug; e1- e8.

Leslie L, et al. Automated E-mail messaging as a tool for improving quit rates in an Internet smoking cessation intervention.  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2004 Jul-Aug; 11(4):235-40.

Hoffmann T, et al.  Producing computer-generated tailored written information for stroke patients and their carers: system development and preliminary evaluation.  International Journal of Medical  Informatics. 2004 Oct; 73(6):751-758.

Zehnder, S, et al.  Swiss Community Pharmacies' on the Web and Pharmacists' Experiences with E-commerce: Longitudinal study and internet-based questionnaire survey. Journal of Medical Internet Research   2004; 6(1); e9.

More reference sources

American Medical Informatics Association.  AMIA ...membership directory & yearbook.
        REF W 22.1 A527 2002

Hruby, Walter. Digital (r)evolution in radiology.
        WN 26.5 D434 2001

Dasgupta, Dipankar (ed.).   Artificial immune systems and their applications.
        QW 504 A774 1999

Glaser, John P.  The Strategic application of information technology in health care organizations.  2nd ed.
        W 26.5 G427 2002

Collen, Morris Frank.  A History of medical informatics in the United States 1950 to 1990.
         W 26.5 C644 1995

Specialized sources

AMIA  ... Annual symposium proceedings. 2003
        Shelved at Circulation: Ask for CD.

Health informatics. Check Rowland Medical Library Catalog for titles in series.

Department of Microbiology.  601-984-1918.
        University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson
        William B. Lushbaugh, PhD.   wlushbaugh@microbio.umsmed.edu

Selected electronic sources

International Medical Informatics Association
http://www.imia.org/

AMIA: American Medical Informatics Association.
http://www.amia.org/

CDC. Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program
 http://www.cdc.gov/epo/dphsi/informat.htm

McGill Medical Informatics
 http://www.mmi.mcgill.ca/

Stanford Medical Informatics
http://www.smi.stanford.edu/

Author:  Helvi McCall
Copyright  2002. Revised 2005. Reference Department
Rowland Medical Library
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson