CRITIQUE

Critique

Critique

Introduction

The impressive third edition of this enormous volume of twenty-four chapters and over a thousand pages is one of thirty-six volumes in Springer's 'Health Informatics Series' and ambitiously aims to span all of the current methods in health informatics. To do so, Professors Shortliffe and Cimino have assembled an excellent set of authors who themselves are among the major contributors to knowledge in this field. The series claims to be aimed at 'healthcare professionals', and this book is certainly appropriate for the non-technical informatics user.

Need for motivation and requirements for successful consumer health care

However, this ...