Medical informatics: the future of organized healthcare or Orwellian medicine?

[摘要] Public healthcare information technologies or ‘medical informatics’ may very well become the preeminent medical development of the 21st century, akin to the breakthrough role antimicrobial therapies played starting in the late 19th century and the impact that genomics were starting to have in the 20th century. If current trends prevail, large-scale data management systems, fueled by the combination of rapid developments in medical information systems and rapidly decreasing costs for data storage and retrieval, will be connected almost directly to all but the most remote or destitute of medical practices anywhere in the world.

[学科分类] 外科医学