Title :
Early Biomedical Computing and the Roots of Evidence-Based Medicine
Author :
November, Joseph A.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
Abstract :
The heavily computerized evidence-based medicine (EBM) approach to diagnosis and care aims to reorient medical practice toward adhering to standards and protocols generated by mass data analysis. By clarifying the connections between the 1960s National Institutes of Health effort to computerize medicine and the recent proliferation of EBM, this article illuminates the intellectual and institutional challenges of introducing information technology to medicine.
Keywords :
data analysis; information technology; medical computing; medical information systems; medicine; National Institutes of Health effort; biomedical computing; evidence based medicine approach; information technology; mass data analysis; medicine computerization; Biomedical communication; Biomedical computing; History; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; automation; computers and society; evidence-based medicine; healthcare; history of computing; organizational; public policy issues; software;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MAHC.2011.35