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Medical Informatics, the Internet, and Telemedicine

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General purpose electronic computers appeared in 1946 with the creation of ENIAC and were first theorized as potentially useful for medical diagnosis by Ledley and Lusted in the 1950s [1].

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    Michael D. Hagen

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Hagen, M.D. (2022). Medical Informatics, the Internet, and Telemedicine. In: Paulman, P.M., Taylor, R.B., Paulman, A.A., Nasir, L.S. (eds) Family Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54441-6_51

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