Distributed cognition: An alternative model of cognition for medical informatics

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 226-234

  Hazlehurst, Brian ^a   Gorman, Paul N ^b   McMullen, Carmit K ^a  

^a CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical information system design; Cognitive science; Distributed cognition; Human performance

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DATA PROCESSING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CLINICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM DESIGN; DISTRIBUTED COGNITION; HUMAN COGNITION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS;

BIOINFORMATICS;

ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COGNITION; COMPUTER MODEL; ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH CARE; HISTORY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COGNITION; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EID: 39749165918     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2007.04.008     Document Type: Article

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