This book reflects the "state of the art" on medical informatics. It presents many new and exciting ideas that will guide the process of medical informatics. Topics in the book include: - Information systems in health care and medicine - Telemedicine and telematics - Security - Biomedical processing, data mining and knowledge discovery - Training and education - Internet/Intranet - Resources management - Intelligent medical systems - Health guidelines and protocols - Electronic patient encounter, card technology, electronic data interchange - Terminology - Nursing informatics