This book provides state-of-the-art information regarding the field of medical informatics. Information Technology (IT) has revolutionized the daily life of a common man, while medical science has been making rapid progress in understanding disease mechanisms, formulating diagnostic techniques and implementing successful treatment regimen, even for those cases which would have been classified as a poor prognosis a decade earlier. The convergence of information technology and biomedicine has introduced additional dimensions of computerized databases for patient conditions, revolutionizing the...