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.