Computer system for research and clinical application to medicine

Abstract

Since June, 1964, a Control Data 3200 computer system has been installed in the Latter-day Saints Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, under support from NIH grant FR-00012. This system in its inception was used to develop research programs and time-sharing software for use by the medical community in the Salt Lake City area. As a result, a software and hardware system called MEDLAB has been developed. Using this system, research programs were developed for cardiovascular studies. It soon became apparent that the programs which were being developed could also be used in a clinical environment.