145:, leading to the establishment of the Center for Clinical Computing. In addition to computerizing all clinical and ancillary functions within the hospital, the BWH system included a full suite of financial applications. Their system, named the CCC system, laid foundation in clinical informatics, evolving to meet the needs of healthcare professionals and patients alike.
127:, recruited Warner Slack to co-found the "Division of Computer Medicine". He developed systems such as the Medical Information Retrieval System (MISAR) which was the basis for the Veteran’s Administrations hospital information system’s “Fileman” and the end-user literature searching program "PaperChase" which was the forerunner of the
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Bleich's research and work is associated within medical informatics, a field he helped pioneer. He developed computer-based systems aimed at improving clinical care. In the late 1960s, he developed an "Acid-Base
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Bleich, Howard L.; Slack, Warner V. (January 2010). "Reflections on electronic medical records: When doctors will use them and when they will not".
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Slack, Warner V.; Bleich, Howard L. (June 1999). "The CCC system in two teaching hospitals: a progress report".
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in 1967. He was a
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