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We define an intelligent textbook of medicine to be a computer system that: (1) provides for storage and selective retrieval of synthesized clinical knowledge for reference purposes; and (2) supports the application by computer of its knowledge to patient information to assist physicians with decision making. This paper describes an experimental system called KMS (a Knowledge Management System) for creating and using intelligent medical textbooks. KMS is domain-independent, supports multiple inference methods and representation languages, and is designed for direct use by physicians during the knowledge acquisition process. It is presented here in the context of the development of an Intelligent Textbook of Neurology. We suggest that KMS has the potential to overcome some of the problems that have inhibited the use of knowledge-based systems by physicians in the past.
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Reggia, J.A., Pula, T.P., Price, T.R., Perricone, B.T. (1980). Towards an Intelligent Textbook of Neurology. In: Reggia, J.A., Tuhrim, S. (eds) Computer-Assisted Medical Decision Making. Computers and Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5108-8_12
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