The field of medical informatics has grown rapidly over the past decade due to the advances in biomedical computing, the abundance of biomedical and genomic data, the ubiquity of the Internet, and the general acceptance of computing in various aspects of medical, biological, and health care research and practice. This book aims to be complementary to several other popular introductory medical informatics textbooks. The focus of this book is on the new concepts, technologies, and practices of biomedical knowledge management, data mining, and text mining that are beginning to bring useful "knowledge" to biomedical professionals and researchers
