Download or read book Handbook of Clinical Automation, Robotics, and Optimization written by Judith Welsh (R.N.) and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 1996 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive landmark book describes the technology of the future in diagnostic medicine, how to integrate it into the modern hospital and how to work with people to adapt, change and plan for a smooth transition to a fully robotic laboratory. Features an extensive section on point-of-care testing along with a modern perspective of how this will transform medicine. Global experts in their fields have authored all chapters which include a unique one on machine vision and another (with several plates) that discusses the automation of a clinical laboratory in Japan.