Tim Benson: 4 books

Joined-up healthcare makes information available when and where it is needed to improve safety, efficiency and effectiveness. Politicians may take interoperability between healthcare computer systems for granted, but it is non-trivial. Healthcare integration projects are notoriously under-estimated...

The aims and scope of the second edition are unchanged from the first edition. The major market is in health informatics education. The three part format, which covers principles of health interoperability, HL7 and interchange formats, and SNOMED CT and clinical terminology, works well. In the US,...

This book provides an introduction to health interoperability and the main standards used. Health interoperability delivers health information where and when it is needed.  Everybody stands to gain from safer more soundly based decisions and less duplication, delays, waste and errors.   The...

WE ARE NOT ALONE...MORE’S THE PITY.Three poignant, sometimes blackly comic accounts, where unlikely heroes kids, screw-ups, survivors stumble their way through protecting Earth from faintly baffling alien invasions.It’s one of the oldest devices in science fiction, from Wells’ The War of the...