Computerized medical record requirements of a properly designed system demonstration of an implementation on an MC68000 system

Patient medical record is the single most important document in the medical field. While its primary purpose is to furnish documentary evidence of the course of a patient's medical evaluation, treatment and progress, it serves many other equally important functions. It is the source of information for most of the medical education. The medical knowledge, as it exists today, is based on the cumulative observations made by thousands of physicians over the past few centuries. These observations have been compiled into textbooks and monographs by prominent educators and medical scholars. As we stand on the threshold of an electronic medical information system, we become acutely aware of the need for a system of medical data entry which is accurate and uniform. This is to make certain that our sea of electronic medical knowledge does not become contaminated by misinformation due to the removal of the expert judgement of the medical scholar who poured over the medical records, extracting the reliable and pertinent facts to be included in the textbooks of yesteryear.