[The development of medical information consulting systems]

A model of an information-and-consultative system (ICS) designed for practitioners and students in the field of pulmonology at the Research Institute for Pulmonology of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (project director--A.G. Chuchalin) is outlined in the paper. The purpose was to construct an ICS structure that would be adapted to continuously increasing and changing knowledge in the field of pulmonology and that could be used to interpret such knowledge from the standpoint of medical proof.