Medical Science - “Drowned in Data but Starved for Information”!
Abstract
Three and a half decades down the line in 1985, Rutherford D. Rogers
opined “we are drowning in information, but we are starved for
knowledge."
This still holds good with some amendments, particularly
in the field of medicine. Here, we can safely amend the information to
data, and knowledge to information though with some caveats. The
recognized sequences are data, information, knowledge and wisdom
(DIKW).
Let us have a closer and contextual look at the first two
entities with some ephemeral remarks on the others. Though data and
information are sometimes misunderstood as interchangeable lexes,
the difference is blatant.
How to cite this article:
Mishra B. Medical Science - “Drowned in Data
but Starved for Information”!. Int J HealthCare
Edu & Med Inform. 2021;8(3):1-3.
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