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Software Engineering for Health Care and Biomedicine

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the co-authors of the previous chapter edition titled “System Design and Engineering in Health Care,” GioWiederhold and Edward H. Shortliffe.

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Wilcox, A.B., Narus, S.P., Vawdrey, D.K. (2014). Software Engineering for Health Care and Biomedicine. In: Shortliffe, E., Cimino, J. (eds) Biomedical Informatics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4474-8_6

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