Methods in Medical Informatics: Fundamentals of Healthcare Programming in Perl, Python, and Ruby (Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical and Computational Biology) Hardcover – September 22, 2010
Author: Visit Amazon's Jules J. Berman Page | Language: English | ISBN: 1439841829 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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As subspecialty board certification in clinical informatics has finally become a reality, Jules Berman’s Methods in Medical Informatics could not be more timely. This well-written and informative text combines Dr. Berman’s expertise in programming with his vast knowledge of publicly available data sets and everyday healthcare programming needs to result in a book which … should become a staple in health informatics education programs as well as a standard addition to the personal libraries of informaticists.
—Alexis B. Carter, Journal of Pathology Informatics, October 2011
This book provides an introduction to processing clinical and population health data using rigorous methods and widely available, low cost, but very capable tools. The inclusion of the three leading dynamic programming languages broadens the appeal … bridges the gap from programming instruction to dealing with specialized medical data, making it possible to teach a relevant programming course in a biomedical environment. I would have loved to have a copy of this when I was teaching introductory programming for medical informatics.
—Professor James H. Harrison, Jr., Director of Clinical Informatics, University of Virginia
… presents students and professionals in the healthcare field (who have some working knowledge of the open-source programming languages Perl, Python, or Ruby) with instruction for applying basic informatics algorithms to medical data sets. He [the author] provides algorithm scripts for each of the languages, along with step-by-step explanations of the algorithms used for retrieving, organizing, merging, and analyzing such data sources as the National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results project, the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed service, the mortality records of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US Census, and the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man data set on inherited conditions.
—SciTech Book News, February 2011
About the Author
Jules Berman, Ph.D., M.D., received two bachelor of science degrees (mathematics and earth sciences) from MIT, a Ph.D. in pathology from Temple University, and an M.D. from the University of Miami School of Medicine. His postdoctoral research was conducted at the National Cancer Institute. His medical residence in pathology was completed at the George Washington University School of Medicine. He became board certified in anatomic pathology and in cytopathology, and served as the chief of Anatomic Pathology, Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology at the Veterans Administration (VA) Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland.
While at the Baltimore VA, Dr. Berman held appointments at the University of Maryland Medical Center and at theJohns Hopkins Medical Institutions. In 1998, he became the program director for pathology informatics in the Cancer Diagnosis Program at the U.S. National Cancer Institute. In 2006, he became president of the Association for Pathology Informatics. Over the course of his career, he has written, as first author, more than 100 publications, including five books in the field of medical informatics. Today, Dr. Berman is a full-time freelance writer.
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- Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical and Computational Biology (Book 39)
- Hardcover: 413 pages
- Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC; 1 edition (September 22, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1439841829
- ISBN-13: 978-1439841822
- Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 7.1 x 9.8 inches
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This review can also be found in the Journal of Pathology Informatics ([...]), an open access journal for the field of Pathology Informatics.
As subspecialty board certification in clinical informatics has finally become a reality, Jules Berman's book Methods in Medical Informatics could not be more timely. This well-written and informative text combines Dr. Berman's expertise in programming with his vast knowledge of publicly available data sets and everyday healthcare programming needs to result in a book which should, in the opinion of this reviewer, become a staple in health informatics education programs as well as a standard addition to the personal libraries of informaticists.
The book's title does not do justice to the wealth of information contained therein. While Python, Perl, and Ruby are certainly important components of the text as described below, the contents also house a huge amount of valuable information on publicly available data sets and how they can be accessed and used for medical discovery. Through parallel examples in Python, Perl, and Ruby, the reader is taken through sets of structured exercises, each of which includes a description of the problem or task, a human readable explanation of the script algorithm, script examples and analysis of the expected results. While this book was not intended for the novice programmer, the organization and structure of its content and explanation of the process behind the code easily facilitate a reader's ability to use the examples on his or her own computer with a minimum of background in each of the languages provided.
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