0. Preface
1. What is Biomedical Data and what do we do with it?
2. The Data of Biomedical Informatics
3. Confidential Biomedical Data
4. Standards for Biomedical Data
5. Just Enough Programming
6. Programming Common Biomedical Informatics Tasks
7. Biomedical Nomenclatures
8. Misbehaving Text: Dealing with Poorly Written Medical Text
9. Autocoding Unstructured Data
10. Computational Methods for De-identification and Data Scrubbing
11. Cryptography in Biomedical Informatics
12. Describing Data with Metadata
13. Simplifying Complex Data with Classifications and Ontologies
14. Clinical Trials: The Informatician Lives in a Statistical World
15. Distributed Computing
16. A Practical Approach to ethics for Biomedical Informaticians
17. Grantsmanship for Biomedical Informaticians
References
Appendix
Glossary