The Engines of Hippocrates – From the Dawn of ine to Medical and Pharmaceutical Informatics

BARRY ROBSON is Director of Medical Research and Professor of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Evidence Based Medicine at St. Matthew's University School of Medicine, and CEO of The Dirac Foundation, formed with the permission of Nobel laureate Paul A. M. Dirac's widow to promote understanding of the value of theoretical physics in human and veterinary medicine. Until recently, he was Chief Scientific Officer of IBM Global Healthcare and Life Sciences, and then Global Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences, an IBM Distinguished Engineer, and previously, Strategic Advisor at IBM Research headquarters. O. K. BAEK is a Senior Solutions Architect at IBM, specializing in healthcare and with a passionate interest in the benefits and long-standing logic of Oriental medicine. He is particularly interested in the development of novel architectures for sharing and using medical information securely, and in translational research, the matter of rapidly delivering the results of medical research and genomics to enhance everyday clinical decisions.

Preface. About the Authors. 1 A Short Preview of Mankind, Medicine, Molecules, and Machines. 2 From Prehistory to Hippocrates. 3 The Road to the New Medicine. 4 The Imminent Challenge: Medicine as an Industry. 5 The Next Decade: Personalized Medicine and the Digital Patient Record. 6 Enforcing your Rights: Medical Ethics, Consent, Privacy, and IT. 7 Holistic Medicine and IT. 8 Architecting It All. 9 Guardian Angels: Knowing Our Molecules, Drug and Vaccine Design, Medical Decision Support, Medical Vigilance and Defense. 10 What Next? At One with the Engines of Hippocrates. Glossary. Clinical Trial Terms. Notes, Bibliography, and Further Reading Guide. Index.