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The Impact of the Computer on Healthcare and Medicine
How computers reshaped patient records, scheduling and clinical systems, and the trade-offs in privacy, workload and reliability that came with them.
Computers and Society
Health and Medicine
What computers have changed in care and medical research, and what they have not.
The Development of the First Computer-Based Medical Imaging
How CT and MRI came to depend on computers to build images from raw measurements, and why credit for these technologies is shared among many people.
The Impact of Computing on Healthcare
A look at hospital computing, from administration and billing to patient monitoring and decision tools, with attention to limits, errors and trade-offs.
The Impact of the Computer on Healthcare and Medical Research
How computers entered medical research through statistics, genome sequencing and clinical trials, and why data quality and interpretation still matter.
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