Cancer informatics : essential technologies for clinical trials / editors, John S. Silva ... [et al.] ; with a foreword by Richard D. Klausner. - New York : Springer, c2002. - xxvi, 377 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Health informatics .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Section 1. The Vision,
Section Introduction: Envisioning a National Cancer Information and knowledge environment,
Chapter 1. Translating Cancer Research into Cancer Care,
Chapter 2. Visions of the Future,
Chapter 3. Clinical Trials in Practice,

Section 2. The Infrastructure,
Section Introduction: Developing and Improving the Informatics Infrastructure to Support Clinical Research,
Chapter 4. Cancer Informatics: Lessons from the World of E-Business, Chapter 5. Security and Privacy,
Chapter 6. Digital Libraries and Scholarly Communication,

Section 3. Standards and Vocabulary,
Section Introduction: The Spectrum of Existing and Emerging Health Data Standards: Their Relevance and Application to Cancer Information,
Chapter 7. Cancer Data, Information Standards, and Convergent Efforts, Chapter 8. Toward Terminology as Infrastructure,
Chapter 9. Clinical Terminologies for Data Analysis and Structured Data Entry,
Chapter 10. Information Standards Within NCI,
Chapter 11. CDE Development Model for Chest CT Screening for Lung Cancer,
Chapter 12. Pathology Standards in Cancer Informatics,
Chapter 13. Clinical Information Interchange with Health Level Seven, Chapter 14. The Health Level Seven Reference Information Model,
Chapter 15. HIPAA Administrative Simplification Standards: Provisions of the Final Privacy Rule Related to Clinical Trials,
Chapter 16. Toward a Shared Representation of Clinical Trial Protocols: Application of the GLIF Guideline Modeling Framework,
Chapter 17. Informatics for Cancer Prevention and Control,

Section 4. Theory into practice,
Section Introduction: Moving Toward the Vision: Putting Applications in Place,
Chapter 18. Selection of Oncology Information Systems,
Chapter 19. Clinical State Diagrams and Informatics Tools for Clinical Trial Protocols,
Chapter 20. Support for the Cancer Patient: An Internet Model,
Chapter 21. Increasing Clinical Trials Awareness and Accrual Via the Web, Chapter 22. ClinicalTrials.gov: Linking Patients to Medical Research, Chapter 23. The National Cancer Institute's net-Trials,
Chapter 24. iN: A Community-Based Cancer Informatics and Clinical Trials Network,
Chapter 25. Consumer Health Informatics,
Chapter 26. An Internet-Based Data System for Outcomes Research

ISBN: 0387953280 (hc : alk. paper)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Cancer--Research.
Clinical trials.
Medical informatics.
Neoplasms.
Clinical Trials--methods.
Medical Informatics.

Dewey Class. No.: QZ 206 C215 2002 / C215 2002

National Library of Medicine Call No.: QZ 206 / C215 2002