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This chapter tries to look into the reasons for delusion about efficiency and quality of results of Medical Informatics Technology. Our thesis is that it is not a technology like the other medical technologies, and that “to assess medical informatics” implies to assess not only the machinery (hard and soft), but above all to assess what medical informatics really do for people. One can hardly speak of medical informatics without having in mind questions related to human concerns, thus without referring to human sciences.
We then try to draw some of the consequences of such a philosophical approach for the design of Automatized Hospital Medical Information Systems, and we show an example issued from our own experience: a study aimed at showing and analyzing the gap between conceptors' and users' points of view about an AHMIS.
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