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How We Got Here. Antecedents to the Electronic Medical Record. Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD University of Wisconsin, Madison School of Library & Information Studies.
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How We Got Here Antecedents to the Electronic Medical Record Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD University of Wisconsin, Madison School of Library & Information Studies
“Note- Every time we do one of these damn things, some other obstacle to success presents itself, and these obstacles are those that cannot be fore-seen from animal experimentation alone. But we’ll get ‘im yet!”
Beginnings • 1965: Hospital and clinic information systems (73) • Computer-assisted diagnosis (51) • Medical document storage and retrieval (28) • Collen, 1986
Flash forward • Goals very similar! • Eliminate paperwork • more keyboard use • “Correlate diseases” and eliminate errors • knowledge bases have to be good and accurate
Works consulted • Collen MF: Origins of medical informatics, In Medical informatics [Special Issue]. West J Med 1986 Dec; 145:778-785 • The Bertram M. BernheimCollection. The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. • The Corset X-Rays of Dr LudovicO’Followell (1908). Images courtesy of the Wellcome Library, London. • Patient Room, New Orleans Marine Hospital. Images from the History of Medicine, National Library of Medicine (public domain).