Lost in thought — The limits of the human mind and the future of medicine

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 377, Issue 13, 2017, Pages 1209-1211

  Obermeyer, Ziad ^a   Lee, Thomas H ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Press Ganey Associates Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MACHINE LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; THINKING; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; FORECASTING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; TRENDS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATASETS AS TOPIC; DECISION MAKING; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MACHINE LEARNING; MEDICINE; THINKING;

EID: 85030466573     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1705348     Document Type: Short Survey

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