Edward Shortliffe

From Rutgers Medical Informatics History Project

Latest revision as of 21:20, 27 February 2012

Name: Edward Hance Shortliffe, MD, Ph.D.

Elected ACMI Fellow: 1984. President ACMI 1992-1994. Morris Collen Award, 2006

Birthdate: 1947, Alberta Canada

Degrees: BA,Applied Math and Computer Science, Harvard 1970; PhD Medical Infomation Siences, Stanford School of Medicine 1975; MD Stanford, 1976

Current Position: President and CEO, American Medical Informatics Association, Bethesda, MD

Adjunct Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University in the City of New York

Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Arizona State University, Phoenix

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Current email: shortliffe@dbmi.columbia.edu

Professional Affiliations:

Professional Activities: President, AMIA 2009-present

Honors and Awards: Graduation Magna Cum Laude, Harvard College, June 1970

Medical Scientist Training Program, Traineeship, September 1971 - June 1976

Grace Murray Hopper Award (Distinguished computer scientist under age 30), Association for Computing Machinery, October 1976

Research Career Development Award, National Library of Medicine, July 1979—June 1984

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Faculty Scholar in General Internal Medicine, July 1983—June 1988

Young Investigator Award, Western Society for Clinical Investigation, February 1987

Elected Member, IOM, 1987

Elected Fellow, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 1990

Mastership, American College of Physicians, November 2002

National Associate, National Academies, Washington, DC, December 2004

Appointed Rolf H. Scholdager Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, June 2005

Other Works:

Other Information: 1965-1966 foreign exchange student in UK

Curriculum Vitae: via shortliffe.net

Selected Publications:

Mitchell JA, Gerdin U, Lindberg DA, Lovis C, Martin-Sanchez FJ, Miller
RA, Shortliffe EH, Leong TY. 50 Years of Informatics Research on
Decision Support: What's Next. Methods Inf Med. 2011 Dec
6;50(6):525-35. PubMed PMID: 22146915.

Shortliffe EH. President's column: subspecialty certification in
clinical Informatics. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2011
Nov-Dec;18(6):890-1. PubMed PMID: 22009891; PubMed Central PMCID:
PMC3198006.

Li YC, Detmer DE, Shabbir SA, Nguyen PA, Jian WS, Mihalas GI,
Shortliffe EH, Tang P, Haux R, Kimura M. A global travelers'
electronic health record template standard for personal health
records. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2011 Aug 17. [Epub ahead of print]
PubMed PMID: 21849333.

Shortliffe EH. AMIA president's column: AMIA and HIT policy
activities. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2011 Jul-Aug;18(4):537-8. PubMed
PMID: 21672917; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3128421.

Shortliffe EH. AMIA president's message. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2011
May 1;18(3):349-50. Erratum in: J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2011
Jul-Aug;18(4):529. PubMed PMID: 21486892; PubMed Central PMCID:
PMC3078670.

Stead WW, Searle JR, Fessler HE, Smith JW, Shortliffe EH. Biomedical
informatics: changing what physicians need to know and how they
learn. Acad Med.  2011 Apr;86(4):429-34. PubMed PMID: 20711055.

Shortliffe EH. AMIA president's message. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2011
Jan-Feb;18(1):107. PubMed PMID: 21169624; PubMed Central PMCID:
PMC3005885.

Bloomrosen M, Starren J, Lorenzi NM, Ash JS, Patel VL, Shortliffe EH.
Anticipating and addressing the unintended consequences of health IT
and policy: a report from the AMIA 2009 Health Policy Meeting. J Am
Med Inform Assoc. 2011 Jan-Feb;18(1):82-90. PubMed PMID: 21169620;
PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3005876.

Shortliffe EH. Biomedical informatics in the education of
physicians. JAMA.  2010 Sep 15;304(11):1227-8. PubMed PMID: 20841537.

Greenes RA, Shortliffe EH. Commentary: Informatics in biomedicine and
health care. Acad Med. 2009 Jul;84(7):818-20. PubMed PMID: 19550167.

Shortliffe EH, Bates DW, Bloomrosen M, Greenwood K, Safran C, Steen
EB, Tang PC, Williamson JJ. Don E. Detmer and the American Medical
Informatics Association: an appreciation. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2009
Jul-Aug;16(4):429-38.  PubMed PMID: 19574463; PubMed Central PMCID:
PMC2705244.

Patel VL, Shortliffe EH, Stefanelli M, Szolovits P, Berthold MR,
Bellazzi R, Abu-Hanna A. The coming of age of artificial intelligence
in medicine. Artif Intell Med. 2009 May;46(1):5-17. Epub 2008 Sep
13. PubMed PMID: 18790621; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2752210.

Ohno-Machado L, Ellison D, Shortliffe EH. Presentation of the 2008
Morris F.  Collen Award to Robert A. Greenes. J Am Med Inform
Assoc. 2009 May-Jun;16(3):413-8. PubMed PMID: 19606540; PubMed Central
PMCID: PMC2732226.

Shortliffe EH, Califano A, Hunter L. New JBI emphasis on translational
bioinformatics. J Biomed Inform. 2009 Apr;42(2):199-200. PubMed PMID:
19298948.

Patel VL, Yoskowitz NA, Arocha JF, Shortliffe EH. Cognitive and
learning sciences in biomedical and health instructional design: A
review with lessons for biomedical informatics education. J Biomed
Inform. 2009 Feb;42(1):176-97. Epub 2008 Dec 24. Review. PubMed PMID:
19135173.

Patel VL, Yoskowitz NA, Kaufman DR, Shortliffe EH. Discerning patterns
of human immunodeficiency virus risk in healthy young adults. Am J
Med. 2008 Sep;121(9):758-64. Review. PubMed PMID: 18724961; PubMed
Central PMCID: PMC2597652.

Greenes RA, Panchanathan S, Patel V, Silverman H, Shortliffe
EH. Biomedical informatics in the desert--a new and unique program at
Arizona State University.  Yearb Med Inform. 2008:150-6. PubMed PMID:
18660889.

Malhotra S, Jordan D, Shortliffe E, Patel VL. Workflow modeling in
critical care: piecing together your own puzzle. J Biomed Inform. 2007
Apr;40(2):81-92.  Epub 2006 Jun 9. PubMed PMID: 16899412.

Shortliffe EH, Sondik EJ. The public health informatics
infrastructure: anticipating its role in cancer. Cancer Causes
Control. 2006 Sep;17(7):861-9.  Review. PubMed PMID: 16841254.

Cohen T, Blatter B, Almeida C, Shortliffe E, Patel V. A cognitive
blueprint of collaboration in context: distributed cognition in the
psychiatric emergency department. Artif Intell Med. 2006
Jun;37(2):73-83. Epub 2006 May 30. PubMed PMID: 16730960.

Miller RA, Groth T, Hasman A, Haux R, McCray AT, Safran C, Shortliffe
EH. On exemplary scientific conduct regarding submission of
manuscripts to biomedical informatics journals. Comput Methods
Programs Biomed. 2006 Mar;81(3):195-6. Epub 2006 Feb 28. PubMed PMID:
16503365.

Miller RA, Groth T, Hasman A, Safran C, Shortliffe EH, Haux R, McCray
AT. On exemplary scientific conduct regarding submission of
manuscripts to biomedical informatics journals. Methods Inf
Med. 2006;45(1):1-3. PubMed PMID: 16482363.

Shortliffe EH. Strategic action in health information technology: why
the obvious has taken so long. Health Aff (Millwood). 2005
Sep-Oct;24(5):1222-33.  PubMed PMID: 16162567.

Shortliffe EH. CPOE and the facilitation of medication errors. J
Biomed Inform. 2005 Aug;38(4):257-8. PubMed PMID: 16011910.

Patel VL, Yoskowitz NA, Kaufman DR, Gutnik LA, Shortliffe EH. Risky
decisions despite counter evidence: modeling a culture of safer sexual
practices. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2005:594-8. PubMed PMID: 16779109;
PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1560566.

Wang D, Peleg M, Tu SW, Boxwala AA, Ogunyemi O, Zeng Q, Greenes RA,
Patel VL, Shortliffe EH. Design and implementation of the GLIF3
guideline execution engine.  J Biomed Inform. 2004
Oct;37(5):305-18. PubMed PMID: 15488745.

Zhang J, Patel VL, Johnson TR, Shortliffe EH. A cognitive taxonomy of
medical errors. J Biomed Inform. 2004 Jun;37(3):193-204. PubMed PMID:
15196483.

Boxwala AA, Peleg M, Tu S, Ogunyemi O, Zeng QT, Wang D, Patel VL,
Greenes RA, Shortliffe EH. GLIF3: a representation format for sharable
computer-interpretable clinical practice guidelines. J Biomed
Inform. 2004 Jun;37(3):147-61. PubMed PMID: 15196480.

Friedman CP, Altman RB, Kohane IS, McCormick KA, Miller PL, Ozbolt
JG, Shortliffe EH, Stormo GD, Szczepaniak MC, Tuck D, Williamson J;
American College of Medical Informatics. Training the next generation
of informaticians: the impact of "BISTI" and bioinformatics--a report
from the American College of Medical Informatics. J Am Med Inform
Assoc. 2004 May-Jun;11(3):167-72. Epub 2004 Feb 5. PubMed PMID:
14764617; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC400513.

Peleg M, Boxwala AA, Tu S, Zeng Q, Ogunyemi O, Wang D, Patel VL,
Greenes RA, Shortliffe EH. The InterMed approach to sharable
computer-interpretable guidelines: a review. J Am Med Inform
Assoc. 2004 Jan-Feb;11(1):1-10. Epub 2003 Oct 5. PubMed PMID:
14527977; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC305452.

Wang D, Peleg M, Bu D, Cantor M, Landesberg G, Lunenfeld E, Tu SW,
Kaiser GE, Hripcsak G, Patel VL, Shortliffe EH. GESDOR - a generic
execution model for sharing of computer-interpretable clinical
practice guidelines. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2003:694-8. PubMed PMID:
14728262; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1480330.

Peleg M, Tu S, Bury J, Ciccarese P, Fox J, Greenes RA, Hall R,
Johnson PD, Jones N, Kumar A, Miksch S, Quaglini S, Seyfang A,
Shortliffe EH, Stefanelli M.  Comparing computer-interpretable
guideline models: a case-study approach. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2003
Jan-Feb;10(1):52-68. PubMed PMID: 12509357; PubMed Central PMCID:
PMC150359.

Wang D, Peleg M, Tu SW, Boxwala AA, Greenes RA, Patel VL,
Shortliffe EH.  Representation primitives, process models and patient
data in computer-interpretable clinical practice guidelines: a
literature review of guideline representation models. Int J Med
Inform. 2002 Dec 18;68(1-3):59-70.  Review. PubMed PMID: 12467791.

Shortliffe EH, Garber AM. Training synergies between medical
informatics and health services research: successes and challenges. J
Am Med Inform Assoc. 2002 Mar-Apr;9(2):133-9. PubMed PMID: 11861628;
PubMed Central PMCID: PMC344570.

Zhang J, Patel VL, Johnson TR, Shortliffe EH. Toward a cognitive
taxonomy of medical errors. Proc AMIA Symp. 2002:934-8. PubMed PMID:
12463962; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2244173.

Wang D, Shortliffe EH. GLEE--a model-driven execution system for
computer-based implementation of clinical practice guidelines. Proc
AMIA Symp.  2002:855-9. PubMed PMID: 12463946; PubMed Central PMCID:
PMC2244320.

Tao Y, Wang D, Shortliffe EH, Lussier YA. Extended attributes of
event monitor systems for criteria-based notification modalities. Proc
AMIA Symp.  2002:762-6. PubMed PMID: 12463927; PubMed Central PMCID:
PMC2244499.

Peleg M, Patel VL, Snow V, Tu S, Mottur-Pilson C, Shortliffe EH,
Greenes RA.  Support for guideline development through error
classification and constraint checking. Proc AMIA
Symp. 2002:607-11. PubMed PMID: 12463895; PubMed Central PMCID:
PMC2244326.

Kukafka R, O'Carroll PW, Gerberding JL, Shortliffe EH, Aliferis C,
Lumpkin JR, Yasnoff WA. Issues and opportunities in public health
informatics: a panel discussion. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2001
Nov;7(6):31-42. PubMed PMID: 11710167.

Peleg M, Boxwala AA, Bernstam E, Tu S, Greenes RA, Shortliffe
EH. Sharable representation of clinical guidelines in GLIF:
relationship to the Arden Syntax.  J Biomed Inform. 2001
Jun;34(3):170-81. PubMed PMID: 11723699.

Boxwala AA, Tu S, Peleg M, Zeng Q, Ogunyemi O, Greenes RA,
Shortliffe EH, Patel VL. Toward a representation format for sharable
clinical guidelines. J Biomed Inform. 2001 Jun;34(3):157-69. PubMed
PMID: 11723698.

Patel VL, Arocha JF, Diermeier M, Greenes RA, Shortliffe
EH. Methods of cognitive analysis to support the design and evaluation
of biomedical systems: the case of clinical practice guidelines. J
Biomed Inform. 2001 Feb;34(1):52-66.  Review. PubMed PMID: 11376543.

Peleg M, Ogunyemi O, Tu S, Boxwala AA, Zeng Q, Greenes RA,
Shortliffe EH.  Using features of Arden Syntax with object-oriented
medical data models for guideline modeling. Proc AMIA
Symp. 2001:523-7. PubMed PMID: 11825243; PubMed Central PMCID:
PMC2243476.

Wang D, Peleg M, Tu SW, Shortliffe EH, Greenes RA. Representation
of clinical practice guidelines for computer-based
implementations. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2001;84(Pt
1):285-9. Review. PubMed PMID: 11604750.

Peleg M, Boxwala AA, Tu S, Greenes RA, Shortliffe EH, Patel
VL. Handling expressiveness and comprehensibility requirements in
GLIF3. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2001;84(Pt 1):241-5. PubMed PMID:
11604741.

Greenes RA, Peleg M, Boxwala A, Tu S, Patel V, Shortliffe
EH. Sharable computer-based clinical practice guidelines: rationale,
obstacles, approaches, and prospects. Stud Health Technol
Inform. 2001;84(Pt 1):201-5. PubMed PMID: 11604733.

Shortliffe EH. Networking health: learning from others, taking the
lead.  Health Aff (Millwood). 2000 Nov-Dec;19(6):9-22. PubMed PMID:
11192425.

Patel VL, Arocha JF, Shortliffe EH. Cognitive models in training
health professionals to protect patients' confidential
information. Int J Med Inform.  2000 Nov;60(2):143-50. PubMed PMID:
11154965.

Elkin PL, Peleg M, Lacson R, Bernstam E, Tu S, Boxwala A, Greenes
R, Shortliffe EH. Toward the standardization of electronic
guidelines. MD Comput.  2000 Nov-Dec;17(6):39-44. PubMed PMID:
11189760.

Patel VL, Cytryn KN, Shortliffe EH, Safran C. The collaborative
health care team: the role of individual and group expertise. Teach
Learn Med. 2000 Summer;12(3):117-32. Review. PubMed PMID: 11228898.

Shortliffe EH, Rindfleisch TC. Presentation of the Morris
F. Collen Award to Joshua Lederberg, PhD. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2000
May-Jun;7(3):326-32. PubMed PMID: 10833171; PubMed Central PMCID:
PMC61437.

Masys DR, Brennan PF, Ozbolt JG, Corn M, Shortliffe EH. Are
medical informatics and nursing informatics distinct disciplines? The
1999 ACMI debate. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2000
May-Jun;7(3):304-12. PubMed PMID: 10833168; PubMed Central PMCID:
PMC61434.

Fu LM, Shortliffe EH. The application of certainty factors to
neural computing for rule discovery. IEEE Trans Neural
Netw. 2000;11(3):647-57. PubMed PMID: 18249792.

Shortliffe EH, Patel VL. Informatics at NIH. J Am Med Inform
Assoc. 2000 Jan-Feb;7(1):109-10. PubMed PMID: 10641970; PubMed Central
PMCID: PMC61462.

Peleg M, Boxwala AA, Ogunyemi O, Zeng Q, Tu S, Lacson R, Bernstam
E, Ash N, Mork P, Ohno-Machado L, Shortliffe EH, Greenes RA. GLIF3:
the evolution of a guideline representation format. Proc AMIA
Symp. 2000:645-9. PubMed PMID: 11079963; PubMed Central PMCID:
PMC2243832.

Bernstam E, Ash N, Peleg M, Tu S, Boxwala AA, Mork P, Shortliffe
EH, Greenes RA. Guideline classification to assist modeling,
authoring, implementation and retrieval. Proc AMIA
Symp. 2000:66-70. PubMed PMID: 11079846; PubMed Central PMCID:
PMC2244090.

Patel VL, Kaufman DR, Allen VG, Shortliffe EH, Cimino JJ, Greenes
RA. Toward a framework for computer-mediated collaborative design in
medical informatics.  Methods Inf Med. 1999 Sep;38(3):158-76. PubMed
PMID: 10522119.

Shortliffe EH. The evolution of electronic medical records. Acad
Med. 1999 Apr;74(4):414-9. PubMed PMID: 10219224.

Oliver DE, Shahar Y, Shortliffe EH, Musen MA. Representation of
change in controlled medical terminologies. Artif Intell Med. 1999
Jan;15(1):53-76. Review.  PubMed PMID: 9930616.

Campbell KE, Cohn SP, Chute CG, Shortliffe EH, Rennels G. Scalable
methodologies for distributed development of logic-based convergent
medical terminology. Methods Inf Med. 1998 Nov;37(4-5):426-39. PubMed
PMID: 9865041.

Patel VL, Allen VG, Arocha JF, Shortliffe EH. Representing
clinical guidelines in GLIF: individual and collaborative expertise. J
Am Med Inform Assoc. 1998 Sep-Oct;5(5):467-83. PubMed PMID: 9760394;
PubMed Central PMCID: PMC61328.

Campbell KE, Oliver DE, Spackman KA, Shortliffe EH. Representing
thoughts, words, and things in the UMLS. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 1998
Sep-Oct;5(5):421-31.  PubMed PMID: 9760390; PubMed Central PMCID:
PMC61323.

Shortliffe EH. Health care and the next generation Internet. Ann
Intern Med.  1998 Jul 15;129(2):138-40. PubMed PMID: 9669975.

Ohno-Machado L, Gennari JH, Murphy SN, Jain NL, Tu SW, Oliver DE,
Pattison-Gordon E, Greenes RA, Shortliffe EH, Barnett GO. The
guideline interchange format: a model for representing guidelines. J
Am Med Inform Assoc.  1998 Jul-Aug;5(4):357-72. PubMed PMID: 9670133;
PubMed Central PMCID: PMC61313.

Shortliffe EH, Patel VL, Cimino JJ, Barnett GO, Greenes RA. A
study of collaboration among medical informatics research
laboratories. Artif Intell Med.  1998 Feb;12(2):97-123. PubMed PMID:
9520219.

Campbell KE, Oliver DE, Shortliffe EH. The Unified Medical
Language System: toward a collaborative approach for solving
terminologic problems. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 1998
Jan-Feb;5(1):12-6. PubMed PMID: 9452982; PubMed Central PMCID:
PMC61272.

Shortliffe EH. The next generation Internet and health care: a
civics lesson for the informatics community. Proc AMIA
Symp. 1998:8-14. PubMed PMID: 9929176; PubMed Central PMCID:
PMC2232298.

Shortliffe EH. The evolution of health-care records in the era of
the Internet. Stud Health Technol Inform. 1998;52 Pt 1:suppl
8-14. PubMed PMID: 10384545.

Shortliffe EH. Research takes on a second life. Interview by John
McCornack.  Health Data Manag. 1996 Nov;4(11):25, 27-8, 30. Erratum
in: Health Data Manag 1997 Jan;5(1):10. PubMed PMID: 10162222.

Shortliffe EH. Professionalism in medical informatics. Methods Inf
Med. 1996 Sep;35(3):155-6. PubMed PMID: 8984310.

Shiffman S, Shortliffe EH. Biomedical imaging and the evolution of
medical informatics. Comput Med Imaging Graph. 1996
Jul-Aug;20(4):189-92. PubMed PMID: 8954227.

Shortliffe EH, Bleich HL, Caine CG, Masys DR, Simborg DW. The
federal role in the health information infrastructure: a debate of the
pros and cons of government intervention. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 1996
Jul-Aug;3(4):249-57. PubMed PMID: 8816347; PubMed Central PMCID:
PMC116307.

Poon AD, Fagan LM, Shortliffe EH. The PEN-Ivory project: exploring
user-interface design for the selection of items from large controlled
vocabularies of medicine. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 1996
Mar-Apr;3(2):168-83. PubMed PMID: 8653453; PubMed Central PMCID:
PMC116299.

Campbell KE, Cohn SP, Chute CG, Rennels G, Shortliffe
EH. Gálapagos: computer-based support for evolution of a convergent
medical terminology. Proc AMIA Annu Fall Symp. 1996:269-73. PubMed
PMID: 8947670; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2233229.

Shortliffe EH, Barnett GO, Cimino JJ, Greenes RA, Huff SM, Patel
VL.  Collaborative medical informatics research using the Internet and
the World Wide Web. Proc AMIA Annu Fall Symp. 1996:125-9. PubMed PMID:
8947641; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2233227.

Shortliffe EH. Medical informatics meets medical
education. JAMA. 1995 Apr 5;273(13):1061, 1064-5. PubMed PMID:
7897795.

Shortliffe EH. When decision support doesn't support. Med Decis
Making. 1995 Apr-Jun;15(2):187-8. PubMed PMID: 7783580.

Carlson RW, Tu SW, Lane NM, Lai TL, Kemper CA, Musen MA,
Shortliffe EH.  Computer-based screening of patients with HIV/AIDS for
clinical-trial eligibility. Online J Curr Clin Trials. 1995 Mar 28;Doc
No 179:[3347 words; 32 paragraphs]. PubMed PMID: 7719564.

Weinberger M, Kirkman MS, Samsa GP, Shortliffe EA, Landsman PB,
Cowper PA, Simel DL, Feussner JR. A nurse-coordinated intervention for
primary care patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus:
impact on glycemic control and health-related quality of life. J Gen
Intern Med. 1995 Feb;10(2):59-66. PubMed PMID: 7730940.

Detmer WM, Shortliffe EH. A model of clinical query management
that supports integration of biomedical information over the World
Wide Web. Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care. 1995:898-902. PubMed
PMID: 8563422; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2579223.

Purcell GP, Shortliffe EH. Contextual models of clinical
publications for enhancing retrieval from full-text databases. Proc
Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care. 1995:851-7. PubMed PMID: 8563412;
PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2579214.

Weinberger M, Kirkman MS, Samsa GP, Cowper PA, Shortliffe EA,
Simel DL, Feussner JR. The relationship between glycemic control and
health-related quality of life in patients with non-insulin-dependent
diabetes mellitus. Med Care. 1994 Dec;32(12):1173-81. PubMed PMID:
7967857.

Kirkman MS, Weinberger M, Landsman PB, Samsa GP, Shortliffe EA,
Simel DL, Feussner JR. A telephone-delivered intervention for patients
with NIDDM. Effect on coronary risk factors. Diabetes Care. 1994
Aug;17(8):840-6. PubMed PMID: 7956628.

Shortliffe EH. Health care professional workstations: where are we
now? ...  where should we be tomorrow? Int J Biomed Comput. 1994
Jan;34(1-4):45-55. PubMed PMID: 8125654.

Shortliffe EH. Dehumanization of patient care--are computers the
problem or the solution? J Am Med Inform Assoc. 1994
Jan-Feb;1(1):76-8. PubMed PMID: 7719790; PubMed Central PMCID:
PMC116187.

Tang PC, Fafchamps D, Shortliffe EH. Traditional medical records
as a source of clinical data in the outpatient setting. Proc Annu Symp
Comput Appl Med Care.  1994:575-9. PubMed PMID: 7949993; PubMed
Central PMCID: PMC2247843.

Barnett O, Shortliffe E, Chueh H, Piggins J, Greenes R, Cimino J,
Musen M, Clayton P, Humphreys B, Kingsland L 3rd, et al. Patient care
applications on Internet. Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med
Care. 1994:1060. PubMed PMID: 7949895; PubMed Central PMCID:
PMC2247766.

Shortliffe EH. Clinical information systems in the era of managed
care. Trans Am Clin Climatol Assoc. 1994;105:203-13; discussion
213-5. PubMed PMID: 7974971; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2376727.

Shortliffe EH. The adolescence of AI in medicine: will the field
come of age in the '90s? Artif Intell Med. 1993
Apr;5(2):93-106. Review. PubMed PMID: 8358494.

Wulfman CE, Rua M, Lane CD, Shortliffe EH, Fagan LM. Graphical
access to medical expert systems: V. Integration with
continuous-speech recognition.  Methods Inf Med. 1993
Feb;32(1):33-46. PubMed PMID: 8469159.

Shortliffe EH. Doctors, patients, and computers: will information
technology dehumanize health-care delivery? Proc Am Philos
Soc. 1993;137(3):390-8. PubMed PMID: 11658229.

Musen MA, Carlson RW, Fagan LM, Deresinski SC, Shortliffe
EH. T-HELPER: automated support for community-based clinical
research. Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care. 1992:719-23. PubMed
PMID: 1482965; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2247986.

Shortliffe EH, Tang PC, Detmer DE. Patient records and
computers. Ann Intern Med. 1991 Dec 15;115(12):979-81. PubMed PMID:
1823543.

Shortliffe EH. Medical informatics and clinical decision making:
the science and the pragmatics. Med Decis Making. 1991 Oct-Dec;11(4
Suppl):S2-14. PubMed PMID: 1837576.

Lehmann HP, Shortliffe EH. Thomas: building Bayesian statistical
expert systems to aid in clinical decision making. Comput Methods
Programs Biomed. 1991 Aug;35(4):251-60. PubMed PMID: 1752120.

Shortliffe EH. Developing trends in clinical computing. Ann Acad
Med Singapore. 1991 Mar;20(2):277-80. PubMed PMID: 1883190.

Rucker DW, Maron DJ, Shortliffe EH. Temporal representation of
clinical algorithms using expert-system and database tools. Comput
Biomed Res. 1990 Jun;23(3):222-39. PubMed PMID: 2350959.

Greenes RA, Shortliffe EH. Medical informatics. An emerging
academic discipline and institutional priority. JAMA. 1990 Feb
23;263(8):1114-20. Review.  PubMed PMID: 2405204.

Shortliffe EH, Fagan LM. Research training in medical informatics:
the Stanford experience. Acad Med. 1989 Oct;64(10):575-8. PubMed PMID:
2789596.

Shortliffe EH. Testing reality: the introduction of
decision-support technologies for physicians. Methods Inf Med. 1989
Jan;28(1):1-5. PubMed PMID: 2649770.

Langlotz CP, Shortliffe EH, Fagan LM. A methodology for
generating computer-based explanations of decision-theoretic
advice. Med Decis Making. 1988 Oct-Dec;8(4):290-303. PubMed PMID:
3185181.

Rennels GD, Shortliffe EH. Advanced computing for medicine. Sci
Am. 1987 Oct;257(4):154-61. PubMed PMID: 3317813.

Shortliffe EH. Computer programs to support clinical decision
making. JAMA.  1987 Jul 3;258(1):61-6. PubMed PMID: 3586293.

Walton JD, Musen MA, Combs DM, Lane CD, Shortliffe EH, Fagan
LM. Graphical access to medical expert systems: III. Design of a
knowledge acquisition environment. Methods Inf Med. 1987
Jul;26(3):78-88. PubMed PMID: 3670103.

Langlotz CP, Fagan LM, Tu SW, Sikic BI, Shortliffe EH. A therapy
planning architecture that combines decision theory and artificial
intelligence techniques. Comput Biomed Res. 1987
Jun;20(3):279-303. PubMed PMID: 3301187.

Rennels GD, Shortliffe EH, Stockdale FE, Miller PL. A
computational model of reasoning from the clinical literature. Comput
Methods Programs Biomed. 1987 Apr;24(2):139-49. PubMed PMID: 3297479.

Musen MA, Rohn JA, Fagan LM, Shortliffe EH. Knowledge engineering
for a clinical trial advice system: uncovering errors in protocol
specification. Bull Cancer. 1987;74(3):291-6. PubMed PMID: 3620734.

Rennels GD, Shortliffe EH, Stockdale FE, Miller PL. Reasoning
from the clinical literature: a "distance" metric. Bull
Cancer. 1987;74(2):215-20. PubMed PMID: 3607304.

Rennels GD, Shortliffe EH, Miller PL. Choice and explanation in
medical management: a multiattribute model of artificial intelligence
approaches. Med Decis Making. 1987 Jan-Mar;7(1):22-31. PubMed PMID:
3807687.

Shortliffe EH. Medical expert systems--knowledge tools for
physicians. West J Med. 1986 Dec;145(6):830-9. PubMed PMID: 3811349;
PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1307157.

Lane CD, Walton JD, Shortliffe EH. Graphical access to medical
expert systems: II. Design of an interface for physicians. Methods Inf
Med. 1986 Jul;25(3):143-50. PubMed PMID: 3755497.

Tsuji S, Shortliffe EH. Graphical access to medical expert
systems: I.  Design of a knowledge engineer's interface. Methods Inf
Med. 1986 Apr;25(2):62-70. PubMed PMID: 3702749.

Shortliffe EH. Update on ONCOCIN: a chemotherapy advisor for
clinical oncology. Med Inform (Lond). 1986 Jan-Mar;11(1):19-21. PubMed
PMID: 3959665.

Hickam DH, Shortliffe EH, Bischoff MB, Scott AC, Jacobs CD. The
treatment advice of a computer-based cancer chemotherapy protocol
advisor. Ann Intern Med.  1985 Dec;103(6 ( Pt 1)):928-36. PubMed PMID:
3904563.

Kent DL, Shortliffe EH, Carlson RW, Bischoff MB, Jacobs
CD. Improvements in data collection through physician use of a
computer-based chemotherapy treatment consultant. J Clin Oncol. 1985
Oct;3(10):1409-17. PubMed PMID: 3840200.

Shortliffe EH. The science of biomedical computing. Med Inform
(Lond). 1984 Jul-Dec;9(3-4):185-93. PubMed PMID: 6390015.

Kunz JC, Shortliffe EH, Buchanan BG, Feigenbaum
EA. Computer-assisted decision making in medicine. J Med Philos. 1984
May;9(2):135-60. Review. PubMed PMID: 6381625.

Shortliffe EH. Reasoning methods in medical consultation systems:
artificial intelligence approaches. Comput Programs Biomed. 1984
Feb-Apr;18(1-2):5-13.  PubMed PMID: 6378512.

Shortliffe EH. Microcomputers could play role as new source for
medical consultation. Am Coll Physicians Obs. 1983 Oct;3(9):1,
9. PubMed PMID: 10324317.

Aikins JS, Kunz JC, Shortliffe EH, Fallat RJ. PUFF: an expert
treatment advice of a computer-based cancer chemotherapy protocol
advisor. Ann Intern Med.  1985 Dec;103(6 ( Pt 1)):928-36. PubMed PMID:
3904563.

Kent DL, Shortliffe EH, Carlson RW, Bischoff MB, Jacobs
CD. Improvements in data collection through physician use of a
computer-based chemotherapy treatment consultant. J Clin Oncol. 1985
Oct;3(10):1409-17. PubMed PMID: 3840200.

Shortliffe EH. The science of biomedical computing. Med Inform
(Lond). 1984 Jul-Dec;9(3-4):185-93. PubMed PMID: 6390015.

Kunz JC, Shortliffe EH, Buchanan BG, Feigenbaum
EA. Computer-assisted decision making in medicine. J Med Philos. 1984
May;9(2):135-60. Review. PubMed PMID: 6381625.

Shortliffe EH. Reasoning methods in medical consultation systems:
artificial intelligence approaches. Comput Programs Biomed. 1984
Feb-Apr;18(1-2):5-13.  PubMed PMID: 6378512.

Shortliffe EH. Microcomputers could play role as new source for
medical consultation. Am Coll Physicians Obs. 1983 Oct;3(9):1,
9. PubMed PMID: 10324317.

Aikins JS, Kunz JC, Shortliffe EH, Fallat RJ. PUFF: an expert
system for interpretation of pulmonary function data. Comput Biomed
Res. 1983 Jun;16(3):199-208. PubMed PMID: 6347509.

Duda RO, Shortliffe EH. Expert Systems Research. Science. 1983
Apr 15;220(4594):261-8. PubMed PMID: 6340198.

Wallis JW, Shortliffe EH. Explanatory power for medical expert
systems: studies in the representation of causal relationships for
clinical consultations.  Methods Inf Med. 1982
Jul;21(3):127-36. PubMed PMID: 6752647.

Shortliffe EH, Crapo LM. Thyroid carcinoma with spinal cord
compression.  JAMA. 1982 Mar 19;247(11):1565-6. PubMed PMID: 7062454.

Teach RL, Shortliffe EH. An analysis of physician attitudes
regarding computer-based clinical consultation systems. Comput Biomed
Res. 1981 Dec;14(6):542-58. PubMed PMID: 7035062.

Shortliffe EH, Buchanan BG. Artificial intelligence. N Engl J
Med. 1980 Jun 26;302(26):1482. PubMed PMID: 7374721.

Shortliffe EH. The computer as clinical consultant. Arch Intern
Med. 1980 Mar;140(3):313-4. PubMed PMID: 7362345.

Yu VL, Buchanan BG, Shortliffe EH, Wraith SM, Davis R, Scott AC,
Cohen SN.  Evaluating the performance of a computer-based
consultant. Comput Programs Biomed. 1979 Jan;9(1):95-102. PubMed PMID:
365439.

Wraith SM, Aikins JS, Buchanan BG, Clancey WJ, Davis R, Fagan LM,
Hannigan JF, Scott AC, Shortliffe EH, van Melle WJ, Yu VL, Axline SG,
Cohen SN.  Computerized consultation system for selection of
antimicrobial therapy. Am J Hosp Pharm. 1976 Dec;33(12):1304-8. PubMed
PMID: 998649.

Shortliffe EH, Davis R, Axline SG, Buchanan BG, Green CC, Cohen
SN.  Computer-based consultations in clinical therapeutics:
explanation and rule acquisition capabilities of the MYCIN
system. Comput Biomed Res. 1975 Aug;8(4):303-20. PubMed PMID: 1157471.

Shortliffe EH, Axline SG, Buchanan BG, Merigan TC, Cohen SN. An
artificial intelligence program to advise physicians regarding
antimicrobial therapy. Comput Biomed Res. 1973 Dec;6(6):544-60. PubMed
PMID: 4589706.

Books

Evaluation methods in medical informatics Charles P. Friedman, Jeremy
C. Wyatt ; foreword by Edward H. Shortliffe, New York : Springer, 2006

Computer-based medical consultations, MYCIN,  Edward Hance Shortliffe,
New York : Elsevier, c1976.

Medical informatics : computer applications in health care
Edward H. Shortliffe, Leslie E. Perreault, editors
Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1990

Readings in medical artificial intelligence : the first decade
edited by William J. Clancey, Edward H. Shortliffe
Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1984

Rule-based expert systems : the MYCIN experiments of the Stanford
Heuristic Programming Project / edited by Bruce G. Buchanan, Edward
H. Shortliffe. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1984.

edical informatics : computer applications in health care and
biomedicine / editors, Edward H. Shortliffe, Leslie E. Perreault
New York : Springer, c2001.

Biomedical informatics : computer applications in health care and
biomedicine / Edward H. Shortliffe, editor
New York, NY : Springer, c2006.

Additional Media:
Shortliffe on the relevance of AMIA. "Focus Washington" Interview on Medical Informatics. 2011 Ohio State talk on Biomedical Informatics. (from youtube)

Sources:
Dr. Shortliffe's online CV (2010).