From: simonsharry@gmail.com   
      
   Hi,   
      
   I vaguely remember that the field of Medical Expert Systems used to be   
   'hot' in the 80's and early 90's. People used to talk of building AI/   
   Expert Systems that would, for example, eventually replace (or, at   
   least be able to greatly assist) a human doctor/physician for most   
   types of routine diagnoses... making it faster and more accurate.   
      
   I would like to know...   
     1. what the current state-of-art of is in this area of Medical   
   Expert Systems (diagnosis, treatment, etc);   
     2. what are the current AI-related research and development   
   problems... both open problems and problems that are actively being   
   improved upon.   
     3. if there are any good F/OSS libraries, tools, frameworks --   
   specifically for medical knowledge representation -- that one could   
   use their own solutions.   
     4. about any commercial product that already does full medical   
   diagnosis with a good track record of patient diagnosis.   
      
   I don't even know if this field of Medical Expert Systems is still   
   active, or dead / closed.   
      
   Would greatly appreciate if those who are actively working in this   
   area (or, in something close) could share any useful info / links. Any   
   book recommendations are highly welcome too.   
      
   Regards,   
   /HS   
      
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