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How feasible is the analysis of computer-stored medical data using languages especially designed to support medical decisions? Let’s think about the future by examining the present. Three such languages are currently used daily in patient care. Although these are large-scale institutional installations, the increasing power of micro systems should soon make such systems widely available. Each of the three programs-the HELP system (Latter Day Saints Hospital, Salt Lake), the COSTAR systems running MQL (Medical Query Language), and the CARE system at the Regenstrief Institute in Indianapolisx2014;is different in orientation and flavor. But at its core, each of the three has a language to help analyze data in a patient’s record. The purposes of these languages are either surveillance—detecting medical conditions that need medical action—or queries—retrieving and abstrating data about individual patients or groups of patients.
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Adams, J.B. (1987). Three Surveillance and Query Languages for Medical Care. In: McDonald, C.J. (eds) Buying Equipment and Programs for Home or Office. M. D. Computing: Benchmark Papers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4708-1_21
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