Intelligent Patient Management

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: McClean, Sally (Editor), Millard, Peter (Editor), El-Darzi, Elia (Editor), Nugent, Chris (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 189
• Subjects: Engineering.; Health informatics.; Artificial intelligence.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Biomedical engineering.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Health Informatics.; Biomedical Engineering.

Arguably medicine is either an arts-based science or a science-based art. In medieval times, clinical decisions were based on simple measures, such as the temperature of the body, the rhythm of the pulse, the consistency of the stool and the colour of the urine. Nowadays, thanks partly to modern tec...