Medical Informatics in Insurance Medicine An Introduction to Computers for Insurance Medical Directors
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Although these words were spoken by a fictional hero, the master detective Sherlock Holmes, they express a sentiment which is frequently felt by many physicians today. This issue was examined by Covell et al. in the Annals of Internal Medicine. They looked at the information needs of medical practitioners in their office practice and whether those needs were being met on a day-to-day basis. What they found was that the information needs were great, but they were not being met in a satisfactory way because 70 % of these needs were not satisfied.2
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