Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine

Excellent!

This remains the definitive textbook for the field of biomedical informatics. Good they're keeping it updated.

Comprehensive coverage of biomedical informatics areas. Have purchased several editions of this book.

Can’t wait to complete the courses.

As a Clinical Informatics lead, I found this resource very comprehensive and a good source to increase fund of knowledge for terminology for the CI exam. However, it became apparent in many chapters that the tone was almost "blaming" doctors for care, using terms repeatedly such as "moving away from "doctor knows best" and "paternalistic" medicine. There are many insinuations that physicians are abusive in the "power they hold" over knowledge and their perceived ability to "keep it from patients." There is an overwhelming tone about using informatics to give more information to people that are not physicians including our patients and other healthcare professionals. I have no issue with this, but the book IS missing a very important adjoining discussion about the importance of prioritizing the physician's opinion, which IS and will ALWAYS BE the gold standard for diagnosis and management/decision-making, to continue to vet the vast amount of information that patients now have within their grasp.