Metadata-driven software systems in biomedicine designing systems that can adapt to changing knowledge /

To build good systems, one needs both good development skills as well as a thorough knowledge of the problem one is trying to solve. Knowledge of software history - what has worked and what hasn't - also helps in these types of detailed projects. Metadata-Driven Software Systems in Biomedicine...

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Main Author: Nadkarni, Prakash M.
Other Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: London ; New York : Springer, ©2011.
London ; New York : [2011]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xix, 396 pages) : illustrations.
Series: Health informatics.
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Table of Contents:
  • What Is Metadata?
  • Data Types in the Medical Record
  • Metadata and the Use of XML
  • Representing Structured Clinical Data
  • Building the User Interface for Structured Clinical Data Capture
  • Medical Decision Support Systems: General Considerations
  • Challenges in Electronic Decision Support Implementation
  • Infrastructure for Complex Clinical Decision Support: Rule Engines
  • Decision Support Infrastructure: Workflows and Service-Oriented Architectures
  • Complex Decision Support in Practice
  • Extending the Entity-Attribute-Value Model
  • Descriptive Metadata: An Introduction to Terminologies
  • Descriptive Metadata: Implementing Large-Scale Biomedical Ontologies
  • Clinical Study Data Management Systems
  • Data Retrieval for Heterogeneous Data Models
  • Metadata for Data Warehousing
  • Biomedical Metadata Standards.