Abstract
E-Health is experiencing a difficult time. On the one side, the forecast is for a bright digital health future created by precision medicine and smart devices. On the other hand, most large scale e-health projects struggle to make a difference and are often controversial. Both futures fail because they are not evidence-based. Medical informatics should follow the example of evidence-based medicine, i.e. conduct rigorous research that gives us evidence to solve real world problems, synthesise that evidence and then apply it strictly. We already have the tools for creating a different universe. What we need is evidence, will, a culture of learning, and hard work.
Translated title of the contribution | Looking for evidence-based medical informatics |
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Original language | Italian |
Pages (from-to) | 124-126 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Recenti Progressi in Medicina |
Volume | 107 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Mar 2016 |