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Medical Informatics and Decision Support Systems in the Intensive Care Unit: State of the Art

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Medical informatics involves the broad fields of management and use of biomedical information. Although based in medical computing, medical informatics incorporates a knowledge of the origin, nature, synthesis, and utility of the medical information itself. For medical informatics systems to be successful in improving health care, the skills of interested physicians, nurses, computer scientists, researchers, and other medical professionals must be combined in collaborative efforts.

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  1. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 90048-1865, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    M. Michael Shabot M.D. (Associate Director of Surgery Director of Surgical Intensive Care Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery and Anesthesiology) (Associate Director of Surgery Director of Surgical Intensive Care Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery and Anesthesiology)

  2. UCLA School of Medicine, 90048, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    M. Michael Shabot M.D. (Associate Director of Surgery Director of Surgical Intensive Care Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery and Anesthesiology) (Associate Director of Surgery Director of Surgical Intensive Care Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery and Anesthesiology)

  3. Medical Computing, LDS Hospital, 84143, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Reed M. Gardner Ph.D. (Co-Director Professor of Medical Informatics) (Co-Director Professor of Medical Informatics)

  4. University of Utah, 84112, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Reed M. Gardner Ph.D. (Co-Director Professor of Medical Informatics) (Co-Director Professor of Medical Informatics)

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Clemmer, T.P., Gardner, R.M., Shabot, M.M. (1994). Medical Informatics and Decision Support Systems in the Intensive Care Unit: State of the Art. In: Shabot, M.M., Gardner, R.M. (eds) Decision Support Systems in Critical Care. Computers and Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2698-7_1

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