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A Primer on Aspects of Cognition for Medical Informatics

Affiliations of the authors: Columbia University, New York, New York (VLP); McGill University, Montreal, Canada (JFA); and; University of California–Berkeley, California (DRK).

Correspondence and reprints: Vimla L. Patel, PhD, Department of Medical Informatics, Vanderbilt Clinic Building, 5th Floor, Columbia University, 622 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032; e-mail: <patel{at}dmi.columbia.edu>.

Received for publication: 01/19/00; accepted for publication: 02/23/01.

As a multidisciplinary field, medical informatics draws on a range of disciplines, such as computer science, information science, and the social and cognitive sciences. The cognitive sciences can provide important insights into the nature of the processes involved in human– computer interaction and help improve the design of medical information systems by providing insight into the roles that knowledge, memory, and strategies play in a variety of cognitive activities. In this paper, the authors survey literature on aspects of medical cognition and provide a set of claims that they consider to be important in medical informatics.

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