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Introductory Approaches for Applying Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Medicine

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The urge of computerized, automatized medical decision making as well as having more efficient and organized health data records for financial and medical purposes have brought the necessity to introduce artificial intelligence algorithms to healthcare.

The first artificial intelligence applications in the medical field were to be seen in the introduction of Electronic Health Records followed by the development of Learning Health Systems and Clinical Decision Support systems.

Currently, the development and increment of artificial intelligence applications by larger and smaller entities from all over the world is in an ongoing process, following the market and its needs.

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Lidströmer, N., Aresu, F., Ashrafian, H. (2021). Introductory Approaches for Applying Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Medicine. In: Lidströmer, N., Ashrafian, H. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58080-3_18-1

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