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From Clinical Guidelines to Decision Support

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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIMDM 1999)

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Medical Informatics applies computer-based technologies to several aspects of medicine, including clinical practice, research and education. In all these fields different trends and interests can be identified, respectively related to methodology, technique, and health care policy, including cost-effectiveness analysis, armonization of efforts, budget management, quality assessment and support to medical decisionmaking. All the above aspects may take advantage of proper guidelines aimed at minimizing the misuse and unsuitability of health services, at identifying the appropriate strategies for health policy, and at suitably supporting clinical decisions.

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  1. Department of Medicine, Laboratory of Clinical Informatics, Azienda Ospedaliera San Giovanni Battista Corso Bramante 88, 10126, Torino, Italy

    Gianpaolo Molino

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  1. Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Schottengasse 3, A-1010, Vienna, Austria

    Werner Horn

  2. Department of Medicine and Computer Science, Stanford University, 251 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA, 94305-5479, USA

    Yuval Shahar

  3. Department of Medicine Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge University Hospital, Sweden

    Greger Lindberg

  4. Department of Medical Informatics and Image Analysis, Aalborg University, Fredrik Bajers Vej 7D, DK-9000, Aalborg, Denmark

    Steen Andreassen

  5. School of Public Policy, University College London, 29/30 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9EZ, UK

    Jeremy Wyatt

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Molino, G. (1999). From Clinical Guidelines to Decision Support. In: Horn, W., Shahar, Y., Lindberg, G., Andreassen, S., Wyatt, J. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. AIMDM 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1620. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48720-4_1

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