This book reflects the "state of the art" on medical informatics. It presents many new and exciting ideas that will guide the process of medical informatics. Topics in the book include: - Information systems in health care and medicine - Telemedicine and telematics - Security - Biomedical processing, data mining and knowledge discovery - Training and education - Internet/Intranet - Resources management - Intelligent medical systems - Health guidelines and protocols - Electronic patient encounter, card technology, electronic data interchange - Terminology - Nursing informatics

Medical Informatics Europe '99 (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 68)

Medical Books

Kokol, P.

Administration & Medicine Economics

Ios Pr Inc

Sentinel practice networks, also referred to as practice research networks, have been in use for morbidity registration in Europe and North America for many years and have recently been recognised by the US Institutes of Medicine as a significant underpinning for studies in primary care. In such networks, office-based physicians are recruited on a (mostly) non-monetary basis to monitor defined events among their patients (e. g. influenza, mumps, asthma attacks). After adequate analysis, these data indicate spatial and temporal trends in event frequencies. The areas covered by such sentinel practice networks are communities, counties, or - at best - countries. Though surveillance systems can be very useful in small regions, national differences or global trends in the frequency and distribution of health problems can only be demonstrated by comparing results between sentinel networks. Comparability of national results is, however, limited. This is partly due to the different national health systems influencing the demand of medical care. One of the main reasons is, however, the lack of comparable data on the population from which the cases arise. Such "denominator data" is a vital premise for the comparison of data from primary care research between different regions or even different countries.The extent to which data are available about the population seeking medical care in the European Community countries depends mainly on the national health care system. In countries where most or all inhabitants are registered with certain GPs (Netherlands, United Kingdom), the population covered by physicians’ offices is known in principle, though short-term migrations and double- or non-registered persons may limit the accuracy of population-based measures of event frequencies. In countries where every resident may consult the physician of their own choice (e. g. Belgium, France, Germany), the population covered by medical practices is highly unstable and mostly unknown. A special problem in those countries is the estimation of the so-called "zero class", i.e., the portion of the population which does not see a certain physician at regular intervals but rather only when necessary. Depending on the type of health care system, the number of patients or consultations per unit time - e. g. as specified by health insurance companies - may be available as denominator data in those countries. In early 1993 an initiative was undertaken to gather a workgroup of scientists from five European countries with different health care systems in order to launch a joint grant application to the BIOMED programme of the European Community. The proposed methodological project on the denominator problem was recognised to have central relevance for the harmonisation of methodologies and protocols in health services research and for the further development of co-ordinated networks providing for adequate collection and interpretation of data on health status and health systems, and was therefore funded by the EC from 1 June 1994 to 30 May 1996. The fruits of this concerted research activity The European Denominator Project were finally condensed into an end report, which has now been made available to the public in book format. It provides an overview of the denominator problem itself, of approaches that are readily available at different levels of complexity, and of future ways of harmonising denominator data for primary health care research in order to facilitate the comparison of international data.

Comparison and Harmonisation of Denominator Data for Primary Health Care Research in Countries of the European Community (Biomedical and Health Research, V. 35)

M.Schlaudd

A summary of current knowledge of estrogens and the estrogen receptor in relation to breast cancer, including a history of the field over the past 100 years in the West as breast cancer became more prevalent. The final chapter presents a unified model that Parl (Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt U.) hopes will inspire discussion and lead to a fresh look at the interaction of hormone, receptor, and neoplasm. Other chapters discuss estrogen synthesis and metabolism, estrogen action, estrogen receptor expression in breast cancer, and estrogens as a cancer risk factor. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Estrogens, Estrogen Receptor, and Breast Cancer (Biomedical and Health Research, Vol. 36) (Biomedical and Health Research, V. 36)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Parl, Fritz F.

Special Diet

Altough first proposed by Einstein in 1924, Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in a gas was not achieved until 1995 when, using a combination of laser cooling and trapping, and magnetic trapping and evaporation, it was first observed in rubidium and then in lithium and sodium, cooled down to extremely low temperatures. This book brought together many leaders in both theory and experiments on Bose-Einstein condensation in gases. Their lectures provided a detailed coverage of the experimental techniques for the creation and study of BEC, as well as the theoretical foundation for understanding the properties of this novel system. Many exciting aspects coming out of research on condensates were presented. The timing for this book was excellent since the field is still small enough to cover fully, but is also clearly about to undergo a major expansion. This volume provides the first systematic review of the field and the many developments that have taken place in the past three years. Silicon-based Microphotonics

Bose-Einstein Condensation in Atomic Gases (Proceedings of the International School of Physics)

Science & Math

Stringari, S.

Wieman, C. E.

Societa Italiana Di Fisica

International School of Physics Enrico Fermi (1998 Varenna, Italy)

Physics

The successful development of coastal aquaculture in the opening years of the new millennium will depend upon solution of a multiplicity of economic, sociological, engineering, scientific and environmental issues. The objective of this book is to update the current status of research of aquaculture in the coastal zone and outline directions for the development of sustainable aquaculture using modern methodologies. It is also discussed the application of existing knowledge and the creation of new knowledge to ensure that aquaculture will develop at a sufficient pace to sustain and enhance the availability of high quality foods of aquatic origin in the human diet despite the global decline in the capture fishery.

Modern Aquaculture in the Coastal Zone (NATO Asi Series: Series A: Life Sciences)

Coimbra, J.

Biological Sciences

Fourteen papers, presented at a NATO-sponsored workshop held in September 1998 in Samarkand, address development trends in the transition countries of Central Asia. Workshop goals were to stimulate industry R&D for "small medium enterprises" and foster cooperation between East and West; participants included researchers from the science, technology, and business sectors in Europe, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Ukraine, the US, and Uzbekistan. The papers are in English, sometimes to their detriment as a result of inexpert translation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Innovation and Market Globalization (NATO Asi Series. Partnership Sub-Series 4, Science and Technology Policy, vOl. 31.)

Business & Money

Economics

This book is the brain-child of a group of leading organisations which have been involved in major trials in the field of Regional Health Care Networks (RHCNs). These organisations - co-funded by the EU - have shared with one another, and now with the reader, their knowledge and experience of implementing RHCNs. They have reflected about pitfalls and obstacles, which have hindered until now the spread of such networks, and compiled their findings into this book. Their recommendations to decision makers in Health Care in order to succeed in the challenging task of implementing RHCN are clearly spelled out. The work gives an overview of the organisation of different health care systems across Europe to set the environment in which RHCNs have to be implemented. RHCNs are defined through their most prominent features and a common reference model is developed. The role that the EU has played in the promotion of RHCN is described and a comprehensive list of products and services currently available in Europe is drawn for most European countries. Market trends have been carefully analysed and current barriers to the full development of RHCN identified. The Report gives a list of recommendations to accelerate the evolution of RHCN and to ensure that they realise their full potential benefits. The Report represents an indispensable handbook for those who wish to implement RHCNs. It is an essential reading for anyone who is involved in the management of Health Care at local, regional or national level as well as for health professionals, who represent tomorrows RHCN users.

Building Regional Health Care Networks in Europe (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, V. 67)

A.Weser

With the goal of shedding light on the dynamic role that fat cells play in metabolism, disease, and signalling, two dozen papers from the 1999 meeting of the Steenbock symposium, perhaps held in Madison, Wisconsin, address the molecular regulation of lipid biogenesis in the context of adipocyte metabolism, differentiation, gene expression hormone, and growth factor signaling. They draw from emerging disciplines such as genetics, cell biology, and biochemistry. Among their concerns are lipid second messengers and the role of intracellular lipid-binding proteins, implications in the yellow mouse obesity syndrome for paracrine actions of the agouti gene product, and the adipocyte biology of the bone. Only authors are indexed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Adipocyte Biology and Hormone Signaling (Biomedical and Health Research)

In the 4th Framework of European research program, telecommunications sector (ACTS) has played an important role. Within the framework under ACTS (Advanced Communication Technologies and Services), Domain 5 is dedicated to 'Intelligence in Services and Networks (IS&N)' area and has projects that deal with service architecture, service platforms, service creation, communications management, electronic brokerage, mobility, security, agent technology and applications. Many of the projects cover more than one of these aspects. The book addresses the issues in particular order and provides the results of IS&N projects addressing those issues in a synthesised manner, so that readers can get insight into the European projects contribution towards the telecommunications software industry. Thus it provides the readers with a comprehensive overview of IS&N issues. So, the target readers of this book are readers at large, involved in the future strategies in the network deployment, developers and researchers.

On the Way to the Information Society

Computers & Technology

Networking & Cloud Computing

Gene therapy, developed as an alternative to the use of therapeutic proteins, can be hampered by nuclease degradation of the plasmid DNA, its inability to access target cells or when within cells, to enter the nucleus and transfect these efficiently. This book deals with recent developments in circumventing the problems of direct plasmid administration by the use of viral or non-viral vectors. Representatives from both camps discuss the challenges and opportunities of the two approaches and present current progress with a variety of constructs. These include viruses such as retroviruses, lentiviruses, poxviruses, alphavirus, herpevirus and parvovirus. Non-viral constructs are represented by polycations, polymers, cationic liposomes and nanoparticles.

Targeting of Drugs (NATO Asi Series: Series A: Life Sciences)

NATO Advanced Study Institute on Targeting of Drugs: Strategies for Gene Constructs and Delivery (1999 : Marathon, Greece)

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