Expert Critiquing Systems: Practice-Based Medical Consultation by Computer

✍ Scribed by Perry L. Miller M.D., Ph.D. (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 178
• Series: Computers and Medicine
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Computer technology has impacted the practice of medicine in dramatic ways. Imaging techniques provide noninvasive tools which alter the diagnostic process. Sophisticated monitoring equipment presents new levels of detail for both patient management and research. In most of these technology applications, the com­ puter is embedded in the device; its presence is transparent to the user. There is also a growing number of applications in which the health care provider directly interacts with a computer. In many cases, these applications are limited to administrative functions, e.g., office practice management, location of hospital patients, appointments, and scheduling. Nevertheless, there also are instances of patient care functions such as results reporting, decision support, surveillance, and reminders. This series, Computers and Medicine, will focus upon the direct use of infor­ mation systems as it relates to the medical community. After twenty-five years of experimentation and experience, there are many tested applications which can be implemented economically using the current generation of computers. More­ over, the falling cost of computers suggests that there will be even more extensive use in the near future. Yet there is a gap between current practice and the state-of­ the-art.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Expert Critiquing Systems....Pages 1-20
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM)....Pages 21-28
The ATTENDING System: Anesthesiology....Pages 29-51
HT-ATTENDING: Essential Hypertension....Pages 53-70
VQ-ATTENDING: Goal-Directed Critiquing of Ventilator Management....Pages 71-89
PHEO-ATTENDING: Pheochromocytoma Workup and Conflicting Expertise....Pages 91-104
ESSENTIAL-ATTENDING: Building Expert Critiquing Systems....Pages 105-125
ESSENTIAL-ATTENDING’s Knowledge Exerciser Program....Pages 127-132
Lessons Learned: Design Parameters for a Critiquing System....Pages 133-145
Future Directions....Pages 147-155
Back Matter....Pages 157-175

✦ Subjects

Health Informatics; General Practice / Family Medicine; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)