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<p>I had been interested for a long time in the use of computers in medicine.
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I felt that by bringing a technology into medicine that could be used by many, many doctors,
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I could make a bigger difference than I would as a single practicing physician.
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It was difficult because I had to actually persuade people that computers were important,
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and that they needed a physician to help them with medical computing—that I wasn’t just a programmer.
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I also had a job working on medical databases, the sorts of databases that would hold patients’ information.
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And I began to think that wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could combine
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both the database technology and the image technology into one system,
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so that you wouldn’t have to store your images on tapes with labels, or on disks,
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that you couldn’t find what you needed, that it would be linked together.
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You’d just check the database and it would show you the image.
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So this idea further developed when I visited the VA (Veterans Affairs) Medical Center
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and the doctors looked at the system and said, “Wow, this would really help us in the hospital.”
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So that was the beginning of the VISTA Imaging Project.
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The VISTA Imaging System is an integrated computer system that combines images
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with patient records in an online system.
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The software runs on workstations throughout the medical center,
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providing physicians with the information that they need to treat their patients.
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And it’s actually running in over a hundred hospitals across the country today.
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They started using the system on the wards.
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When they were treating a patient they found that by looking at an image, they had a sense of the urgency.
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For instance, if they saw a vessel in the heart that was 90 percent occluded,
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90 percent didn’t tell them very much.
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But when they saw the image they could realize the impact that the problem was having on the patient.
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They could even show the image to the patient and explain to them what the problem was,
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then let the patient be part of the decision making process.
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So they were really very enthusiastic about it. It was very important to work with people
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who were taking the system and putting it into their process of practicing medicine,
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and in some cases changing the process to take advantage of the technology.
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And that’s really what we want to do, bringing the technology to medicine.
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