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A primer on aspects of cognition for medical informatics.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA ·Vol. 8 ·No. 4 ·2001-00-00 ·Pages 324-43

Patel VL, Arocha JF, Kaufman DR

Abstract

As a multidisciplinary field, medical informatics draws on a range of disciplines, such as computer science, information science, and the social and cognitive sciences. The cognitive sciences can provide important insights into the nature of the processes involved in human- computer interaction and help improve the design of medical information systems by providing insight into the roles that knowledge, memory, and strategies play in a variety of cognitive activities. In this paper, the authors survey literature on aspects of medical cognition and provide a set of claims that they consider to be important in medical informatics.

MeSH Terms
Cognition Ergonomics History, 20th Century Humans Information Systems Knowledge Medical Informatics/history Problem Solving Research/history User-Computer Interface
Authors & Affiliations
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Patel V L
Department of Medical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA. patel@dmi.columbia.edu
Arocha J F
Kaufman D R
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Article Info
Journal
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Abbr.
J Am Med Inform Assoc
ISSN
1067-5027
DOI
10.1136/jamia.2001.0080324
Email
patel@dmi.columbia.edu
Published
2001-00-00
Pages
324-43
Language
English
Region
England
NLM ID
9430800
PMCID
PMC130077
Subset
IM
Grants
NLM NIH HHS · LM34514 · United States
NLM NIH HHS · N01-LM-3343 · United States
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