The Engines of Hippocrates: From the Dawn of Medicine to Medical and Pharmaceutical Informatics

Citation

(2009), "The Engines of Hippocrates: From the Dawn of Medicine to Medical and Pharmaceutical Informatics", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 22 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa.2009.06222eae.002

The Engines of Hippocrates: From the Dawn of Medicine to Medical and Pharmaceutical Informatics

The Engines of Hippocrates: From the Dawn of Medicine to Medical and Pharmaceutical Informatics

Article Type: Recent publications From: International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Volume 22, Issue 5

Barry Robson, O.K. Baek and Sean Ekins (series eds),Wiley-Blackwell,Chichester,To be published in July 2009,ISBN 978-0-470-28953-2

Keywords: Quality improvement, Medical ethics

Encouraging the understanding of humans and disease down to the molecular level, The Engines of Hippocrates presents the hands-on perspective of authors Robson and Baek as they explain the history and techniques of, and assess the potential for, information-based medicine to improve the costs, efficiency, quality and practice of pharmaceutical and medical science.

Covering a broad range of topics, the book presents scientists pursuing drug research and development as well as principal investigators, principal scientists, and research directors with timely topics that are impacting the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries.

Contents include:

1. 1.

   A short preview of mankind, medicine, molecules, and machines.

2. 2.

   From prehistory to Hippocrates.

3. 3.

   The road to the new medicine.

4. 4.

   The imminent challenge: medicine as an industry.

5. 5.

   The next decade: personalized medicine and the digital patient record.

6. 6.

   Enforcing your wishes: medical ethics, consent, privacy, and information technology.

7. 7.

   Holistic medicine and information technology.

8. 8.

   Architecting it all.

9. 9.

   Guardian angels: knowing our molecules, drug and vaccine design, medical decision support, medical vigilance and defense.

10. 10.

    What next? At one with the engines of Hippocrates.