Re: [Gnumed-devel] Interactions and stuff: proposed rules database.

[Karsten Hilbert]

> > While this is technically really elegant it is probably not
> > feasible in all situations since the stored procedure can't
> > possibly have all the context details available that may be of
> > concern to really make an intelligent suggestion.
> Surely, it has access to everything that the client knows.
How so if it runs from a trigger inside the database ?
Decisions are stateful, data is not.

> It will never by "really intelligent": IMHO, this is a failure at
> previous attempts at AI in medicine: they try to 'take over'.
That's understood. There's an old adage from openhealth-list:
"Don't trust those who claim to revolutionize medicine!"
(mainly by use of computers).

Karsten
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