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by keithflower 4479 days ago
I'm a physician. While musing about clinical reasoning based on robust tools like Kanren and miniKanren, I wrote a few thoughts that parallel the article:

"Much if not all of the current talk around clinical software unfortunately stops at electronic health records (EHR) – the paper chart (with all its limitations) mirrored in various incarnations of ‘the cloud’ (with the additional disadvantage of confidentiality rot). For all the endless effort put into EHR, it was a problem solved long ago with nothing more than punched-card-fed mainframes. All we are seeing now is the iterative pursuit of competing data interchange platforms."

"Physicians and researchers need software that advances the goal of making routine things routine beyond just the level of data storage and retrieval…to decision support, data discovery and visualization, unsupervised ontology construction, and scripting of reasoning agents."

http://apps.keithflower.org/?p=238