003 - A “Fundamental Theorem” also for LaboratoryMedicine
Autor(s): Romolo M. Dorizzi
Issue: RIMeL - IJLaM, Vol. 6, N. 1, 2010 (MAF Servizi srl ed.)
Page(s): 3-6
Charles M Friedman, a leading author in Bioinformatics and editor of Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, published in2009 a provocative paper on the same Journaladvocating a “Fundamental Theorem” of Biomedical Informatics that included a couple of graphsvisualizing the concept in a very intriguing way.The theorem proposed by Friedman is based onMiller’s “Greek Oracle” model according to whichthe physician, unable to solve a diagnostic problem, would transfer the patient information toan expert diagnostic consultant program. Theconsultant program would employ seemingly superhuman reasoning capabilities (the “GreekOracle”) to solve the physician’s diagnostic problem. The “Fundamental Theorem” of Biomedical Informatics states that “A person working inpartnership with an information resource is ‘better’ than that same person unassisted”...