Medical Thinking: What Should We Do?

• Decision Support lies at the heart of Biomedical Informatics
• Integration with routine workflow is the key
• Transparency helps to assure acceptance
• The Web is a great facilitator of integration (Does not avoid the need for standardized terminologies and data-sharing protocols)
• Quality of decision-support tools and their influence on clinicians can be greatly enhanced by research on medical cognition
• Medical Thinking
• Important - but only if we explain the practical implications of what we do
• Of broad interest, with fascinating interdisciplinary appeal
• Needs funding, but will get it only if we show the practical value of the work in terms of patient-care quality, error reduction, medical (clinical) education patient education and satisfaction

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