Table 2. Choice of criterias for the classification of Simon’s phases.

Phase	Condition 1	Condition 2	Condition 3	Condition 4
Intelligence	Have access to the history of past decisions.	Ability to predict what may happen to the clinical situation (e.g. with machine learning and data mining models).	Having structured and available information capable of accessing specific clinical information for the characterization of the situation.	Allow access to data to assess the clinical situation of patients.
Design	Definition of clinical context variables.	Ability to develop and present alternative solutions to a clinical situation.	Use of modeling techniques/procedures.	Use of models or set of models to learn to decide.
Choice	Be able to simulate and evaluate each of the available alternatives.	Choice of best alternative as recommended solution based on applied criteria or models.	Application of computational models to ensure the operation of the chosen solution.	-
Implementation	Application of the chosen option in a real environment.	Monitoring and evaluation.	Data collection from monitoring and evaluation.	Be able to record past decisions.

Note: The conditions presented are of disjunction, that is, at least one of them must be met for the system to be classified in a certain phase.