SIGBiO Newsletter page 11 A PROPOSAL FOR MEDICAL SCHOOL COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION Assistant William A. Yasnoff, M.D., Ph.D. Professor and Director of Image Processing Cardiology Division Department of Medicine Medical College of Ohio In 1979, the dean of Harvard Medical School, in an address to the Council of Deans of the American Association of Medical Colleges, stated that there were two key areas which needed to be added to the medical school curriculum: medical decision analysis and information science. 1 It has even been suggested that computer sc science, li should be ii medical schc the past several years, at dozen special programs desi provide physicians and health professionals with advanced computer knowl " " all over the examine the increased int scie and computer in I physicians and school s. Today' s cannot avoid t office practice a c may be a necessi competitive produ respect to billin insurance claims~ e physician's offlce. regarding the typl service to use (~ versus in-house) an system to choose is confusing. Most their decislons I~ information supplied such systems. Thus, e x p e c t, m a n y o victimized by both unscrupulous vendors and their own inability
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