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Any discussion of advanced models in medicine should include medical informatics. In many ways, medical informatics represents the most critical component of medical practice. It is clear that we do not have much control over the progress of biomedical science—the discoveries, techniques, treatments that may dramatically affect medical practice. It is also clear that we do not have control over the actions of individual physicians and their judgments. But we do have control over the necessary resources that support medical practice; we can strive to insure that all relevant information relating to any physician decision be universally and ‘instantly’ available. The claim, here, then, is quite strong: Medical informatics is critically important both because it encompasses data that will be increasingly valuable to medical science and health care and also because it is, in theory, perfectable. Yet we see in routine medical informatics practice something quite distant from perfection.
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Evans, D.A. (1992). The Language of Medicine and the Modeling of Information. In: Evans, D.A., Patel, V.L. (eds) Advanced Models of Cognition for Medical Training and Practice. NATO ASI Series, vol 97. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02833-9_3
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