Florida Anesthesia Computer and Engineering Team
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University of Florida, 1996
The key feature required to make physicians really interested in any of this was the arrival of graphical operating systems (e.g. Macintosh, or Microsoft Windows) which allow pointing devices such as the mouse, trackball, touch screen, or pen, combined with sufficiently powerful personal computers such that the average physician can now find, and even enter, information more rapidly through a well-tuned system than was possible before with pen. Based on this development, the trend is now toward developing systems with direct physician data entry. Systems developed with these powerful hardware and software tools allow simultaneous access to multiple medical data depositories (such as a hospitals On-Line Medical Record simultaneously with a PREOP system) and additional simultaneous access to the computerized world literature of medical journals (MEDLINE). The burgeoning development of CD-ROM medical texts promises to bring even more data right to the fingertips of the average physician. And as a result, the average physician is finally interested.
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