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Expert Systems in Medicne: Possible Future Effects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

P Potthoff ,
M. Rothemund ,
D. Schwefel ,
R. Engelbrecht  and
W. van Eimeren
P Potthoff
Affiliation:
MEDIS-GSF, Federal Republic of Germany
M. Rothemund
Affiliation:
MEDIS-GSF, Federal Republic of Germany
D. Schwefel
Affiliation:
MEDIS-GSF, Federal Republic of Germany
R. Engelbrecht
Affiliation:
MEDIS-GSF, Federal Republic of Germany
W. van Eimeren
Affiliation:
MEDIS-GSF, Federal Republic of Germany
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It should be pointed out that during the interviews most of the experts had positive expectations of ESM. The developers are more generally enthusiastic than the prospective users and affected parties who, especially in respect of the diffusion of ESM into practical application, only show a limited optimism.

However, the representatives of the medical profession and the health insurance industry were convinced that ESM might contribute to cost-neutral increases of quality in out-patient and in-patient medicine. But we also understood them to say that they consider other developments in medicine to be overriding, for example, a tendency of general medicine towards a more family-oriented medicine and a reduced emphasis on technology-oriented medicine. In respect of the conception shared by developers as well as potential users that over-enthusiastic expectations should rather be restrained, we consider such a balanced expectation of positive effects of ESM to be adequate to the actual knowledge of the subject.

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International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , January 1988 , pp. 121 - 133
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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