Broad range of interests in medical informatics, especially decision-support systems,
integrated workstations for clinicians, and web-based information dissemination.
Education and training in the field are of particular concern.
Research Experience:
During the early 1970s, Dr. Shortliffe was principal developer of the medical
expert system MYCIN. After a pause between 1976 and 1979 for internal medicine
house-staff training at Harvard and Stanford Medical Schools, he joined
the Stanford internal medicine faculty, where he has since directed an
active research program in medical informatics. He has also spearheaded
the formation of Stanford's degree program in medical information sciences
and continues to divide his time between clinical medicine and medical-informatics
research. He has been Principal Investigator for Stanford's SUMEX-AIM and
CAMIS Computing Resources, shared research facilities that have supported
medical informatics research and training since the early 1970s.
Areas of Research Interest:
Integrated decision-support systems
Network-based collaborative methodologies
Component-based architectures
Clinical information retrieval in networked environments
Information infrastructure development and implementation