When conversation is better than computation.

By Enrico W. Coiera. JAMIA Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2000

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Emerging paradigms of cognition in medical decision-making (2002, background): “Coeira [105] makes a compelling argument that the computational view of decision support as “acquiring and presenting data” is too narrowly conceived.”
Updating the Beers criteria for potentially inappropriate medication use in older adults: results of a US consensus panel of experts. (2003, background): “Despite phenomenal advances in hardware and software, decision support systems continue to have significant limitations, and presenting the right information to the right person at the point of clinical need remains a challenge for the information systems and information technology engineer, the beh”