Review? A primer on aspects of cognition for medical informatics

As a multidisciplinary field, medical informatics draws on a range of disci plines, such as computer science, information science, and the social and c ognitive sciences. The cognitive sciences can provide important insights in to the nature of the processes involved in human-computer interaction and h elp 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 aspec ts of medical cognition and provide a set of claims that they consider to b e important in medical informatics.