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A description of the electrical "Ultra-Mini-Type Writer" is presented, developed and offered by Japanese Canon Corp. Comparable to pocket-calculators in size and handling the little typewriter easily enables communication to intensive-care-patients unable to speak. The paper prints can be documented in the patient's case history.
Report about an electronic data processing system for gynaecology. The developed data document design and data flowchart are shown. The accumulated data allowed a detailed interpretation record. For all clinical treated patients the computer printed out a final gynaecological epicrisis. The system is an improvement of the information and the typewriting work of medial staff has been reduced.
Quikchart is a menu-driven, touch-panel input microcomputer system designed for computer-naive physicians active in clinical environments. It enables them to generate patient encounter records, and to store and access them using electronic memory. It also permits printing hard-copy records. The system is designed so that the physician can do all this without resorting to a standard typewriter or computer keyboard. It circumvents the disadvantages of both handwritten records and dictated records. Upward expansion of Quikchart will allow individual systems to be networked into a clinic-wide medical record system.
In contrast to the applications in everyday life computers have found only little acceptance hitherto in medical field. At the department of neurosurgery of the Landesnervenklinik Salzburg an input-terminal was installed and connected with its computing centre. The examining physician feeds the data obtained from the first physical examination with the typewriter keyboard of the input-terminal using an alphabetical and numerical key. The total findings are typed by the computer grammatically correct. The electronic storage of these data allows quick access to single findings and also an easy statistical evaluation.
OBJECTIVE: To know the role of drugs and their use from the point of view of the National Health System users. DESIGN: Development of a qualitative method: focal groups of discussion. SITE: Health Area 3 of Zaragoza (Spain) which belongs to the Spanish National Health System. POPULATION: Groups of eight people who are representative of the rural and urban population. MAIN MEASUREMENT AND RESULTS: There were different meeting of one hour and a half for each. All of them started with the same question: What utility, use, and functions have drugs for all of you? All the session were recorded on video-tape and cassette to facilitate its typewriting. The general opinion was that users did not like to take drugs, nevertheless, it was a tool to solve easily and fast a health problem. At the same time, it was a cheap resource comparing to others as massage, health resort, diets... Drugs are seen as interchange currency in the medical bureau. There were critical opinions against abusive consumption of drugs. There is a lack of information concerning the utility and actions of drugs. CONCLUSIONS: The speech of user groups shows opposing points of view related to health professional opinions concerning drugs request from users and the role of drugs in the relationship doctor-patient.
Speech reporting benefits by units which can recognize sentences in any natural language in real time. The use of this method in the everyday practice of radiology departments shows its possible application fields. We used the speech recognition method to report orthopantomographic exams in order to evaluate the advantages the method offers to the management and quality of reporting the exams which are difficult to fit in other closed computed reporting systems. Both speech recognition and the conventional reporting method (tape recording and typewriting) were used to report 760 orthopantomographs. The average time needed to make the report, the legibility (or Flesch) index, as adapted for the Italian language, and finally a clinical index (the subjective opinion of 4 odontostomatologists) were evaluated for each exam, with both techniques. Moreover, errors in speech reporting (crude, human and overall errors) were also evaluated. The advantages of speech reporting consisted in the shorter time needed for the report to become available (2.24 vs 2.99 minutes) (p < 0.0005), in the improved Flesch index (30.62 vs 28.9) and in the clinical index. The data obtained from speech reporting in odontostomatologic radiology were useful not only to reduce the mean reporting time of orthopantomographic exams but also to improve report quality by reducing both grammar and transmission mistakes. However, the basic condition for such results to be obtained is the speaker's skills to make a good report.
We present a case of acute trichloroethane intoxication caused by inhalation of typewriter correction fluid. CT and MR findings revealed lesions in the basal ganglia and cortex similar to those observed in patients with methanol and carbon monoxide poisoning.
Report about an electronic data processing system for obstetrics and perinatology. The developed data document design and data flowchart are shown. The continuously accumulated data allowed everytime a detailed interpretation record. For all clinical treated patients the computer printed out a final obstetrical report (physician report). By means of this simple system there is an improvement of the information and the typewriting work of medical staff has been reduced. Cost and work-expenditure for this system are limited in relation to our earlier hand made procedure.
A rapidly growing information industry based on the combined technologies of the digital computer and telecommunications offers unique opportunities for employment of the physically handicapped. In the studies reported here, the use of voice control was investigated as an alternative to mechanical control for two quadriplegic clients too severely disabled to successfully operate a typewriter keyboard. Using a recently developed voice terminal, the clients were able to type finished copy and program a remotely located computer entirely by voice control. The voice terminal is presently in production. An evaluation of the vocational potential of the voice terminal is currently being conducted by the Rehabilitation Services Administration, DHEW.
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