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I KULIKOWSKI, AIM: Quo Vadis? pleteness of evidence guarantees an endless supply of significant, though frequently less-than-well-defined, open problems for scientific and technologic research. Researchers must often choose between creating ele- Given the critical role medicine plays in our survival gant formal models with restricted medical use and and the ubiquity of computing in our lives, it is hardly plunging into the messy world of practical medical surprising that practitioners of both medical infor- systems, based on computerized medical records, cod- matics and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM) ing and language schemas, graphical user interfaces are often encouraged to get on with their business (GUIs), networking, and distributed databases fed by more quickly and effectively. Such is the gist of the the sophisticated imaging and sensing systems that viewpoint article by Coiera in this issue of JAMIA. He increasingly capture the data for medicine today. proposes viewing AIM as a technologic subspecialty Some of the work on practical systems will lead to of medicine, focusing on challenges presented by cur- fundamental research in AI and other disciplines. rent trends toward evidence-based medicine, so that However, most will also involve solving fairly “mun- “the final arbiters of success must rest
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association – Oxford University Press
Published: Nov 1, 1996
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