Medical Mistake Mitigation Syllogism

Major Premise: Medical mistakes are the third leading cause of patient deaths (http://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2139).

Minor Premise: Cognitive overload is the root cause of medical mistakes (inferred from RCA2: Improving Root Cause Analyses and Actions to Prevent Harm, a Report issued by the National Patient Safety Foundation, http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.npsf.org/resource/resmgr/PDF/RCA2_v2-online-pub_010816.pdf; Patient Safety 2030, NIHR Patient Safety Translational Research Centre at Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, http://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/institute-of-global-health-innovation/centre-for-health-policy/Patient-Safety-2030-Report-VFinal.pdf; and several other sources).

Conclusion: Cognitive support will mitigate medical mistakes.

Although the foregoing syllogism is non-conforming and arguably illogical (re http://www.wikihow.com/Understand-Syllogisms), nevertheless I stand (sit, actually) by the conclusion; which holds the promise for medical practice and healthcare delivery transformation. Please validate this thesis to your own satisfaction by reviewing the details of the Cloud Healthcare Appliance Real-Time Solution as a Service (CHARTSaaS) and its reference architecture in these presentations, and then by imagining a CHARTSaaS-enabled IT solution:

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