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p> Electronic Medical Record and Expert Systems Overview Medical knowledge and expertise are the most important patrimony of a medical institution in terms of results (better diagnosis, better treatment, better teaching) and in terms of efficiency (less mistakes, shorter time, lower economical and social costs) Knowledge and expertise are always been transmitted by teaching and books, but this is not always the most efficient way: a great part of individual expertise goes away when the expert quits the job. An “accumulation of knowledge” could be one of the best investments for an institution and will certainly be much more so in the future. Computer programs called “Expert Systems” (ES) are developed to contain and use knowledge from human experts. The EMG lab has used an ES, called “Elektro” for daily clinical work since 1991.Elektro is a component of an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) called “ Euristic ”...

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