SEDL / STP / STP800-EB / STP35178S

Chapter 9—Computerized Medical Technology: Meeting the Challenge and Issue of Standards

Eden, H
Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Branch, DRS, The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md

Macks, GC
Office of Clinical and Management Systems, Clinical Center, The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md

Pages: 15    Published: Jan 1983

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Abstract

No computer can deterministically produce valid results from invalid data. Any attempt to use computers to enhance decisions in medicine is thus limited by “problems of consensus and authority of the underlying information”. The problems of uncertainty and error exist in the data bases of all medical specialties.