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This chapter discussed a flexible, evolving clinical practice supported by open
clinical agents for both clinical professionals and patients capable of learning at the
human abstraction level. Clinical semantics is not an add-on but rather natively inte-
grated to, and an operational principle behind, the functionality of these agents. Still,
the presented work represents a mere beginning with many open questions remaining.
For example, the presented case study on emergency department chief complaints
involves the use of relatively simple natural language in a very constrained setting.
Thus, the developed tool is by no means applicable to most areas of clinical informa-
tion management. A key future research goal is the development of more advanced
and universally applicable natural language tools.
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