Implications for health care

• information overload is nothing new in health care

  • “Health care workers overburdened by 'information overload’”
  • “In the last 35 years, the number of prescription drugs listed in the Physicians' Desk Reference has more than doubled.”
  • “overload means that diligent research for any case can require an open-ended effort, likely consuming many hours.”

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Health care workers overburdened by 'information overload’ CNN Interactive 28.01.96

http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9601/information_overload/

“This overload means that diligent research for any case can require an open-ended effort, likely consuming many hours. We consider that the current and imminent presentation of information is of inadequate quality to serve the practice of health care.”

Effective Information Transfer for Health Care: Quality versus Quantity, by Gio Wiederhold NII White Papers, 1997.