COMPUTERS IN MEDICINE

From The Foreword: I Am Amazed At Dr LeleS Ability At Observation, Analysis And Synthesis. The Topics Covered In This Book Are So Diverse, And Yet He Has Shown An Uncanny Ability To Grasp Them And Provide Us Deep Insights Dr LeleS Phenomenal Ability To Make An Intelligent And Incisive Inquiry Is Evident In Every Chapter. The True Beneficiary Of This Inquiring Mind Is The Reader Dr R A Mashelkar, Frs Director General, Csir And Secretary, Government Of India Department Of Scientific And Industrial Research Today Microelectronics And Computers Are Being Used In Every Aspect Of Modern Medicine, Namely, Data Acquisition, Storage And Retrieval, Medical Imaging, Medical DecisionMaking, Chemical Lab Procedures, TeleMedicine, Drug Discovery, Etc. Further Due To The Pervasive Nature Of The Internet, Practitioners Are Able To Access Medical Information, Any Time And From Any Part Of The Globe. Computers In Medicine: Progress In Medical Informatics Is A SingleSource Reference On The Subject. It Covers Among Others, Basics Of Computers, ComputerBased Medical Information Retrieval, ComputerAssisted Medical Imaging, Neurocomputers And Artificial Neural Networks, Hospital Information System, ComputerAssisted Surgery, TeleMedicine, ComputerAssisted Drug Discovery, Computerised Patient Record And Computerised Prescriptions. With This Coverage, The Book Will Be Useful To Medical, Paramedical And Healthcare Professionals.