Informatics Workup.
We introduce the concept of a Medical Informatics Workup performed by fourth year medical students working in a busy inner-city Emergency Room. These students use portable computers (Macintosh PowerBook 170s connected to a removable cartridge hard drive and CD-ROM drive) to do the patient workups. The PowerBook 170 contains the automated medical record entry software (IMR-E), five expert system software packages, and a program that allows the PowerBook to emulate a PC-compatible computer. With this configuration the student has a portable system that allows for the creation of a computerized medical record at the patient's bedside, along with the ability to analyze the data and generate a list of differential diagnoses.
Naeymi-Rad
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University of Health Sciences, Chicago Medical School, Illinois 60064.
Trace
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Shoults
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Suico
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O'Brien
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Evens
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Carmony
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Roberts
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Zelanski
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