据2006年5月29日出版的《商业周刊》杂志报道：美国心脏外科医生、数学家、健康经济学家大卫•埃迪在从事医疗卫生行业几十年来，发现许多病人的想法存在一个误区，即越贵、越传统的治疗方式是最好的。但结果是，许多传统的昂贵的药物或治疗方法还没有一些普通的便宜的药物或治疗方法来得有效。为此，埃迪医生发明了一个名为“阿基米德”的电脑模拟系统，通过虚拟的病人和医生来提出诊断病情的建议。该模拟系统能使病人得到更恰当的治疗。埃迪医生的目标是，在未来十年内把“阿基米德”系统推广到整个医疗行业，使其成为医疗诊断不可或缺的帮手。 

英文原文:

Medical Guesswork

The signs at the meeting were not propitious. Half the board members of Kaiser Permanente's Care Management Institute left before Dr. David Eddy finally got the 10 minutes he had pleaded for. But the message Eddy delivered was riveting. With a groundbreaking computer simulation, Eddy showed that the conventional approach to treating diabetes did little to prevent the heart attacks and strokes that are complications of the disease. In contrast, a simple regimen of aspirin and generic drugs to lower blood pressure and cholesterol sent the rate of such incidents plunging. The payoff: healthier lives and hundreds of millions in savings. "I told them: 'This is as good as it gets to improve care and lower costs, which doesn't happen often in medicine,"' Eddy recalls. "'If you don't implement this,' I said, 'you might as well close up shop."'