The electronic medical assistant.
While the applications of computers for administrative procedures in the medical group practice is widely accepted, use of the computer for compiling purely clinical data has merit as well. A Denver-based physician shares his experience of using computers for such manual procedures as taking medical histories, generations of the physical examination record, diagnostic assessments, drug interaction searches, disease indexing, health education programs, and more.
D003120:Colorado; D003201:Computers; D006123:Group Practice; D008487:Medical History Taking; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods