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How We Got HereAntecedents
to the Electronic Medical Record
Catherine Arnott Smith, PhDUniversity 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!”
Financial ledger
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. Bernheim Collection. The Alan Mason Chesney
Medical Archives of The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.• The Corset X-Rays of Dr Ludovic O’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).