Review
"This collection explores the application of information technology to obstetrics and gynecology, and addresses the challenges of properly using health information from the internet and evaluating IT performance in health care." --Book News Inc. (March 2009)
"This book covers a wide range of subjects, from a quick survey of general obstetrics and gynecology to the management of information technology on a complex hospital ward." --Doody Enterprises, Inc. (2009)
About the Author
David Parry is a senior lecturer in the Auckland University of Technology School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences New Zealand. His PhD thesis was concerned with the use of fuzzy ontologies for medical information retrieval. He holds degrees from Imperial College and St. Bartholomew s Medical College (London), Auckland University of Technology and the University of Otago (New Zealand). His research interests include internet-based knowledge management and the semantic web, health informatics, the use of radio frequency ID in healthcare and information retrieval.
Emma Parry (FRANZCOG CMFM) is a senior lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Auckland. Her main interests over the last few years have been induction of labour rates and the techniques used to achieve labour induction. Her MD thesis is titled Induction of Labour: How, Why and When? . She has also been involved in looking at obstetricians views on induction of labour and caesarean section. She is a trained sub-specialist in maternal-fetal medicine.