Ideal for healthcare workers, students and biomedical researchers who wish to
use informatics technologies in their own clinics and laboratories, Biomedical
Informatics describes the fundamental issues and questions in the field, and
reviews the different types of biomedical data resources and open source tools
needed to fully utilize biomedical data. You are shown how to navigate through
the legal, ethical, and technical hazards of biomedical informatics to become
self-sufficient and productive. You will finish with an understanding of how to
acquire, organize, annotate, and share biomedical data, how to render
confidential data harmless through de-identification, and how to use a variety
of free and open source utilities to