Computers, medical care and privacy.
This paper describes Physician Actuated Computerized Treatment (PACT) which provides paperless Medical Office Management (MOM) (1). Software, hardware and physician are fused to produce an on-line database medical management system containing medical records, clerical functions and bookkeeping. PACT developed in the 1980's, was financed entirely by private physicians in a working clinical environment. MOM operates on a mini-computer with a minimum of 10 MB hard disk and 16K of memory. Maximum system design is a function of cost and total desired on-line storage. User friendly screens can prompt the operator in English, Spanish, French, German and Italian. Data entry is in native language.
D003201:Computers; D003219:Confidentiality; D007256:Information Systems / Q000592:standards*; D013548:Sweden