In this article Dr. Goldszer is faced with the common problems most physicians have to face around the world. He has a over abundance of knowledge he must retain in such a small ample amount of time and inefficient means of doing it. As a primary care physician, he must know something like a million facts, and those are constantly changing. This problem with having to know thousands of diseases, patient specifics, medications, and laboratory test can mean a matter of life and death if not dealt with properly.
The Partner's Project took a ambitious dive into linking massive amounts of constantly updated clinical knowledge to the IT systems that supported doctor's workplaces.They decided to focus on order entry of for tests and medications because this is where a lot of errors can occur. Developing a system like this is very difficult. There are very few software packages out there now that allow users to input their own knowledge into the system. As hard as developing this system was aeven harder task of convincing knowledge workers to use the system no matter what environment or field they're in.
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