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It may be of some interest and possibly of some use to review the remarkable developments of medical databases during these six decades from 1950 to 2010; and then offer some predictions of what advances in medical databases can be expected in the next decade.
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Collen, M.F. (2012). Epilogue. In: Computer Medical Databases. Health Informatics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-962-8_10
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