http://blog.hansoh.com/2005/03/22/thoughts-on-the-fundamental-theorem-of-medical-informatics/ eHealth, innovation, and health care Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:04:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.hansoh.com/2005/03/22/thoughts-on-the-fundamental-theorem-of-medical-informatics/comment-page-1/#comment-179 Hans Oh’s eHealth Blog » IBM to build computer models of health system Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:27:33 +0000 http://blog.hansoh.com/?p=53#comment-179 [...] Where the article totally loses me is this absolute belief that technology can solve our problems. I get the sense that the system designers feel as if the technology will be able to save lives by having information in electronic format, and poof! it will reduce errors and save lives. Okay, I’m being a bit harsh here, but my bias is that health interactions are much more complex than banking transactions. Technological determinism is not something that we should assume to be true. Perhaps this sentiment that technology is better stems from what Friedman articulates as the “Fundamental Theorem of Medical Informatics”. You can read an earlier post about my thoughts on the fundamental theorem of medical informatics here. [...] [...] Where the article totally loses me is this absolute belief that technology can solve our problems. I get the sense that the system designers feel as if the technology will be able to save lives by having information in electronic format, and poof! it will reduce errors and save lives. Okay, I’m being a bit harsh here, but my bias is that health interactions are much more complex than banking transactions. Technological determinism is not something that we should assume to be true. Perhaps this sentiment that technology is better stems from what Friedman articulates as the “Fundamental Theorem of Medical Informatics”. You can read an earlier post about my thoughts on the fundamental theorem of medical informatics here. [...]

]]> http://blog.hansoh.com/2005/03/22/thoughts-on-the-fundamental-theorem-of-medical-informatics/comment-page-1/#comment-178 Hans Oh’s eHealth Blog » More thoughts on the "Fundamental Theorem of Medical Informatics" Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:27:12 +0000 http://blog.hansoh.com/?p=53#comment-178 [...] I couldn’t help but think about this theorem a bit during the day. Here are some of my [...] [...] I couldn’t help but think about this theorem a bit during the day. Here are some of my [...]

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