A patient's perspective of medical informatics.
From my viewpoint as a patient, 1. Medical knowledge has expanded to the point that individuals cannot adequately improve quality without the assistance of computer programs. 2. The medical profession must concentrate on why and how computer program projects must be used, not on why they cannot be u...
| Published in: | Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Vol. 2; no. 2; pp. 79 - 85 |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Journal Article |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar1995
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |
| Summary: | From my viewpoint as a patient, 1. Medical knowledge has expanded to the point that individuals cannot adequately improve quality without the assistance of computer programs. 2. The medical profession must concentrate on why and how computer program projects must be used, not on why they cannot be used. 3. The successful application of computer programs to clinical medicine is dependent mainly on the efforts of individual institutions and people at the local level. |
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