TY - JOUR
T1 - The computer as a diagnostic tool in medicine
AU - Agassi, Joseph
AU - Laor, Nathaniel
PY - 1984
Y1 - 1984
N2 - Diagnosis is not a discrete or limited process, but one which is always operative in the physician-patient encounter. It is neither possible nor desirable fully to computerize or automate this process, even in restricted areas. But it is possible and desirable to set up a computer-assisted diagnostic network with which the physician and the patient can both interact. Such a system would educate patients, and allow them to monitor their own care. It is only possible when informed consent in diagnosis becomes the accepted rule. This is a shortened version of a paper included in C. Mitcham and Alois Huning, eds., Philosophy and Technology II: Information Technology and Computers in Theory and Practice (Boston: D. Reidel, in press), and is included here with permission.
AB - Diagnosis is not a discrete or limited process, but one which is always operative in the physician-patient encounter. It is neither possible nor desirable fully to computerize or automate this process, even in restricted areas. But it is possible and desirable to set up a computer-assisted diagnostic network with which the physician and the patient can both interact. Such a system would educate patients, and allow them to monitor their own care. It is only possible when informed consent in diagnosis becomes the accepted rule. This is a shortened version of a paper included in C. Mitcham and Alois Huning, eds., Philosophy and Technology II: Information Technology and Computers in Theory and Practice (Boston: D. Reidel, in press), and is included here with permission.
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U2 - 10.1016/0160-791X(84)90035-6
DO - 10.1016/0160-791X(84)90035-6
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AN - SCOPUS:0021541611
SN - 0160-791X
VL - 6
SP - 235
EP - 239
JO - Technology in Society
JF - Technology in Society
IS - 3
ER -