This paper describes a methodology for encoding problem lists used in general practice
with SNOMED CT. Our intent is to help general practitioners to incorporate SNOMED CT into …

Physicians are under a lot of pressure to perform. The power of the computer can be used to
reduce the cognitive stresses. The use of an intelligent graphical interface can tailor the …

It is great to see all the responses to the editorial by Dr. Persaud in CMAJ. 1 My feeling is
that rather than choosing a singlevendor solution, the thing to do is to standardize the data …

I congratulate CMAJ and Boutis and colleagues for a brilliant research paper. 1 Intention-to-treat
analysis is a comparison of the treatment groups that includes all patients as originally …

This paper describes the use of artificial neural network methods to help predict if a patient
arriving in the emergency room is having an acute myocardial infarction or not. Previous …

There has been a lot of interested in continuing professional development. I was glad to see
the comments on how previous approaches have failed. There was a comment on data to …

In the past year there have been a number of articles related to physicians burnout. There
have been surveys in the US that attributed computer based record keeping as a significant …

It is possible for physicians to review electronic lab results in the format of the sending lab
and, as well, to see them using advanced visualization techniques. When lab results for a …

It is sad to see that it is taking so long to get to where we have what could be called high
performance electronic medical records. One important aspect must be the ability to exchange …

I could NOT possibly agree more with Raymond Simkus in his critique of what physicians
need to insist on and be involved with in terms or the development and standardization of …