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Why Is Family Medicine Different?, F. Matthew Mihelic, Gregory H. Blake
Why Is Family Medicine Different?, F. Matthew Mihelic, Gregory H. Blake
Faculty Publications
An understanding of the role and function of Family Medicine in the healthcare system can provide important insights for Enterprise Architecture. It is often stated that the thought process utilized by Family Medicine physicians is different from that of specialty physicians, but heretofore there has been little or no analysis of what that difference is. This article examines that difference from the perspective of the complex adaptive system that is healthcare today, and shows how it is that Family Medicine physicians perform the vital function of decreasing the entropy or disorder in the patient care system via decision loops, as …
Overcoming Erroneous Confirmation Bias, F. Matthew Mihelic
Overcoming Erroneous Confirmation Bias, F. Matthew Mihelic
Faculty Publications
This paper will explore strategy for overcoming erroneous confirmation bias within the context of generalist versus specialist function as described in the paper entitled “Information Fusion and Quantum Logic in Family Medicine”.
Information Fusion And Quantum Logic In Family Medicine, F. Matthew Mihelic
Information Fusion And Quantum Logic In Family Medicine, F. Matthew Mihelic
Faculty Publications
A time-tested model for information fusion and analysis is provided by Family Medicine. Family Medicine is a discipline that operates in the realms of botJ1 technical and social sciences to analyze massive amounts of information from mulriple sources in order to make decisions that bring about tJie integration and coordination of interdisciplinary interventions involving scientific, psychological, and social aspects of medical care. This generalist function serves to lower the organizational entropy of complex systems and thereby improve efficiency while reducing ilie risk of catastrophic failure. Simply bringing a group of specialists together in one place does not bring about the …