Computer automation in veterinary hospitals.
Computers have been used to automate complex and repetitive tasks in veterinary hospitals since the 1960s. Early systems were expensive, but their use was justified because they performed jobs which would have been impossible or which would have required greater resources in terms of time and personnel had they been performed by other methods. Systems found in most veterinary hospitals today are less costly, magnitudes more capable, and often underused. Modern multitasking operating systems and graphical interfaces bring many opportunities for automation. Commercial and custom programs developed and used in a typical multidoctor mixed species veterinary practice are described.
Snohomish Veterinary Hospital, WA 98290, USA.
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D000818:Animals; D003201:Computers; D006762:Hospitals, Animal; D006801:Humans; D011996:Records; D014730:Veterinary Medicine