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MEDICINE IN THE SPACE AGE COMPUTERIZATION: LABORATORY ASPECTS
Author(s) -
Bonnin J. A.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1970.tb63449.x
Subject(s) - sketch , computer science , section (typography) , interface (matter) , automation , work (physics) , space (punctuation) , engineering , operating system , mechanical engineering , bubble , algorithm , maximum bubble pressure method , parallel computing
This paper is divided into three main sections. The first provides a sketch of a hypothetical Total Hospital Information System, and describes how a computer can be used as a means of communication within a hospital, overcoming one of the present difficulties of communication between departments. If remote computer terminals are placed in all strategic areas in a hospital, paper work can be almost eliminated, administrative procedures greatly facilitated, and manual clerical work very greatly reduced in all sections or departments. The second section of the paper describes the modern cathode ray tube display terminals and their ease of operation, which removes one of the former difficulties of interface between doctor or nurse and the computer. The third section concerns the use of the computer in a pathology laboratory. With the coming automation of many laboratory procedures and the consequent centralization of services, data processing techniques will become the only practical way of reporting results, accounting and gaining access to retrieval of data. A brief description is given of how verbal data, such as histopathology reports, can be reported, stored and retrieved, in addition to the easier numerical data emanating from biochemical departments.