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M F Collen

Publications and source records attributed to M F Collen.

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Periodic health examinations using an automated multitest laboratory.

Automated multitest laboratories with automated, electronic, and computer equipment are used as an integral part of a routine periodic health examination for 4,000 patients a month. The automated multitest laboratory provides electrocardiography, anthropometry, chest and breast x-rays, visual acuity tests, tonometry, retinal photography, audiometry, vital capacity determinations, a health questionnaire on prepunched cards, and laboratory tests including eight blood chemistries done simultaneously with direct punched-card output. Before the patient leaves the multitest laboratory, additional indicated procedures are arranged in accordance with programmed computer "advice" rules. When all test reports are received, the computer prints out a summary report for the physician. The advent of automation and computers may introduce a new era of preventive medicine.

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The origins of informatics.

This article summarizes the origins of informatics, which is based on the science, engineering, and technology of computer hardware, software, and communications. In just four decades, from the 1950s to the 1990s, computer technology has progressed from slow, first-generation vacuum tubes, through the invention of the transistor and its incorporation into microprocessor chips, and ultimately, to fast, fourth-generation very-large-scale-integrated silicon chips. Programming has undergone a parallel transformation, from cumbersome, first-generation, machine languages to efficient, fourth-generation application-oriented languages. Communication has evolved from simple copper wires to complex fiberoptic cables in computer-linked networks. The digital computer has profound implications for the development and practice of clinical medicine.

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A vision of health care and informatics in 2008.

By the year 2008, a major reorganization of health care services in the United States will have evolved from the solo- and group-practice models of the 1940s, with fee-for-service and insurer-indemnification financing and paper-based information systems, to nationwide managed care plans employing enhanced computer-based information systems.

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