Populomics, an Emerging E-Health Response to Contemporary Healthcare Realities

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Author(s): Michael Christopher Gibbons (Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute, USA)
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 3
Source title: Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Nilmini Wickramasinghe (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)and Eliezer Geisler (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch134

Keywords: Health Information Systems / Medical Information Science Reference / Medicine & Healthcare

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There is increasing interest in the role of technology in health care and public health. Several researchers have predicted a coming revolution in health care similar to the transformations that occurred in the finance and retail industries upon the widespread adoption of computer technology (Abrams, 2006; Crane & Raymond, 2003; Gibbons, 2005, 2006). In biomedical research, computer technology has catalyzed the emergence of whole new disciplines such as regulomics, proteomics, phenomics, and pharmacogenetics (Gibbons, 2005). Telemedicine, e-prescribing, Electronic Medical Records, and computerized physician order entry systems are emerging as important tools to improve the quality of health care even though the broad health care transformation historically envisioned has not yet occurred (Crane & Raymond, 2003).

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