title: Health care professional workstations: where are we now? ... where should we be tomorrow?
abstract: This article looks back over four years during which major changes have occurred in healthcare informatics, both technically and from a policy perspective. A remarkable portion of what medical-informatics professionals were proposing in 1989 has subsequently come to pass. Thus, one lesson from reflections on the recent past is that now is the time for us to devise realistic expectations of what we will see happen in the next four years. Possible scenarios for the future are outlined, as are suggestions for how the informatics community might best prepare for what lies ahead.
authors.affiliation: Section on Medical Informatics, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305-5479.
authors.forename: E H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Shortliffe
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003199:Computer Systems / Q000639:trends; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D005544:Forecasting; D006282:Health Personnel; D006296:Health Services; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D016490:Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D008492:Medical Informatics Computing; D012984:Software