Robson / Baek The Engines of Hippocrates

From the Dawn of Medicine to Medical and Pharmaceutical Informatics
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-470-46179-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 512 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Series on Technologies for the Pharmaceutical

A unique, integrative look at information-based medicine
The convergence of medical science, biology, pharmacology,biomedical engineering, healthcare, and information technology isrevolutionizing medical and scientific practice, and has broadersocial implications still being understood. The Engines ofHippocrates provides a unique, integrative, and holistic lookat the new paradigm of information-based medicine, covering a broadrange of topics for a wide readership.
The authors take a comprehensive approach, examining theprehistory, history, and future of medicine and medical technologyand its relation to information; how history led to suchpresent-day discoveries as the structure of DNA, the human genome,and the discipline of bioinformatics; and what the future resultsof these discoveries may hold. Their far-ranging views are theirown and not necessarily those of the IBM Corporation or otheremployers.
The Engines of Hippocrates helps readers understand:
* Forces shaping the pharmaceutical and biomedical industriestoday, including personalized medicine, genomics, data mining, andbionanotechnology
* The relationship between pharmaceutical science today and otherdisciplines such as philosophy of health, history, economics,mathematics, and computer science
* The integrated role alternative and non-Western medicines couldplay in a new, information-based medicine
* Practical, ethical, organizational, technological, and socialproblems of information-based medicine, along with a noveldata-centric computing model and a self-adaptive softwareengineering model, and corresponding information technologyarchitectures, including perspectives on sharing remote dataefficiently and securely for the common good
An unmatched, cross-disciplinary perspective on the big pictureof today and tomorrow's medicine, The Engines of Hippocratesprovides a reference to interested readers both inside and outsidethe pharmaceutical and medical communities, as well as a peerlessclassroom supplement to students in a wide variety ofdisciplines.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robson, Barry

Baek, O. K.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ekins, Sean

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
About the Authors.
1 A Short Preview of Mankind, Medicine, Molecules, andMachines.
2 From Prehistory to Hippocrates.
3 The Road to the New Medicine.
4 The Imminent Challenge: Medicine as an Industry.
5 The Next Decade: Personalized Medicine and the Digital PatientRecord.
6 Enforcing your Rights: Medical Ethics, Consent, Privacy, andIT.
7 Holistic Medicine and IT.
8 Architecting It All.
9 Guardian Angels: Knowing Our Molecules, Drug and VaccineDesign, Medical Decision Support, Medical Vigilance andDefense.
10 What Next? At One with the Engines of Hippocrates.
Glossary.
Clinical Trial Terms.
Notes, Bibliography, and Further Reading Guide.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

BARRY ROBSON is Director of Medical Research and Professorof Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Evidence Based Medicine at St.Matthew's University School of Medicine, and CEO of The DiracFoundation, formed with the permission of Nobel laureate Paul A. M.Dirac's widow to promote understanding of the value of theoreticalphysics in human and veterinary medicine. Until recently, he wasChief Scientific Officer of IBM Global Healthcare and LifeSciences, and then Global Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences, an IBMDistinguished Engineer, and previously, Strategic Advisor at IBMResearch headquarters.
O. K. BAEK is a Senior Solutions Architect at IBM,specializing in healthcare and with a passionate interest in thebenefits and long-standing logic of Oriental medicine. He isparticularly interested in the development of novel architecturesfor sharing and using medical information securely, and intranslational research, the matter of rapidly delivering theresults of medical research and genomics to enhance everydayclinical decisions.