COMPUTERS IN THE SERVICE OF MEDICINE
V. X. Gledhill, John D. Mathews, I. R. Mackay · The Medical Journal of Australia · 1970
Many of our great modern enterprises have been made possible by computers. Medicine is beginning to share in their benefits, through the following applications: automation in clinical laboratories, patient monitoring, teaching, hospital administration, population screening, demographic research, biomedical calculation and modelling, processing of medical records, automated clinical data collection, and computerized diagnosis and decision making in medicine. Our own work on medical records has been concerned with the recording, storage, retrieval and analysis of clinical data and automated methods for obtaining medical histories and recording results of physical examination. Computer aided diagnosis is looming: our CALM technique for this is based on the principle of the “learning model”.