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Baptist Hospital Saves Heart Patients
WINSTON-SALEM - A
computer system which
reduces the time necessary
to diagnose heart attacks
and cither heart praMems is
now in use at N.C. Baptist
Hospital.
The system also can help
to evaluate the general
condition of a person’s
heart.
Smaller hospitals, clinics,
nursing homes and even
industrial sites in North
Carolina and portions of
South Carolina, Virginia and
Tennesse can also utilize the
computer system through
telephone communication.
The system, developed by
Roche Medical Electronics
Inc., is one of five in the
nation. The others are
located at Overlook
Hospital, Summit, N.J.;
Presbyterian Medical
Center, Denver, Colo.;
Loma Linda Medical
Center, Loma Linda, Calif,
and Theda Clark Regional
Medical Center, Neenah.
Wise. Other medical centers
are being considered for this
nation-wide health network.
Baptist Hospital has
several carts which can be
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hogpttil to get i potiontß’s
electrocardiogram (ECG),
a measurement of tne
heart’s electrical activity.
The BOG is transmitted
from the cart to the com
puter in the hospital’s Heart
Station over telephone lines.
One machine at ths Heart
Station duplicates the
elctrocardiogram for a
physician to review. The
computer tales tne uui
information, analyses and
interprets its, arrives at a
diagnosis, and gives a
printed statement of its
reasons for that diagnoiss.
The analysis of in
formation is printed by
teletype machines at the
{Mart Station and in the
hospital’s emergency room
to allow doctors quick ac
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CENTRAL COMPUTER Heart activity of patients is transmitted by telephone to the
computer at Baptist Hospitals. Computer immediately returns teletype printed report of
diagnoses. Carole Jones, chief EKG technician, is editing the electrocardiogram reports
afte'r review by the staff cardiologists. ,
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telephone lines and receive
the diagnosis without delay
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The process of sending the
electrocardiogram to the
computer and receiving the
diagnosis takes only
minutes.
“AO of ths computer’s
interpretations will need to
be verified by a physician,”
according to Dr. John H.
Edmonds, director of the
Heart Station. He an
ticipates that 80 per cent of
the computer-diagnoses for
patients at other health care
institutions will be verified
By doctors at the originating
institutuion.
Even with the need for
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verification, the time
required for a physician to
diagnose a heart’s electrical
problem will be cut in half.
Before installation of the
computer, the process of
taking and evaluating ECGs
at Baptist Hospital involved
considerable clerical help.
As many as 14 hours, might
pass from the time the ECG
was taken until a report of
the final diagnosis was
added to the patient’s chart
at the bedside.
Now, the processing time
is greatly reduced and
results from an elec
trocardiogram are added to
a patient’s chart very soon
after the ECG is taken.
Because the computer
gives reasons far making a
specific diagnosis, Dr.
Edmonds thinks the new
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teaching aid for doctors
training in the specialty of
cardiology and for .medical
students and nurses.
The principal ingredient
in the new system is the
computer program, which
was developed by IBM. and
which is, in Dr. Edmonds’
opinion, the best available.
But he expects more
sophisticated computer
programs to be developed
which will allow the com
puter to store a patient’s
earlier electrocardiograms
and allow comparison with
the most recent ECG. The
computer eventually may
be able to help determine
whether cardiac
pacemakers implanted in
patients are working
properly and to assist in
evaluating a person’s heart
functions during treadmill
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outstanding academic
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by 1,990 students during the
spring semester.
Chancellor Joab L.
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students, who represent the
top 11.7 per cent of the
University’s student body of
17,000. Less than two per
cent 314 students
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averages.
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EARLY WARNING OF HEART TROUBLE Dr. John Edmonds, director of the heart
Station at Baptist Hospitals, is verifying the computer’s reading of an electrocardiogram.
The new system provides a health care network over telephone lines for the greater-
Winston-Salem area. Diagnosis of patient’s heart performance is obtained in a matter of
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