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The System That Turned Paper Charts Into Digital Medical Records
['Joanna Goodrich']
IEEE Spectrum
The platforms exist thanks to pioneering efforts such as the Medical Information System (MIS-I).
The medical information system business operated independently as a subsidiary unit, and the transition marked the beginning of MIS-I’s commercial expansion.
In 1974 El Camino Hospital held a vote of medical staff to determine whether to keep the system or return to paper-based records.
—Dan Woods, El Camino Health CEOIn 1975 nonprofit Battelle of Columbus, Ohio, evaluated how well the system was working for El Camino Hospital.
The plaque reads:From 1965 to 1974, the first hospital-wide computerized medical information system was created by Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. in partnership with El Camino Hospital.