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integration of old patient records with the VA computerized system for patient records. This system is currently implemented at the VA Medical Center in
Washington, D.C., where it has been running for twenty years, and at over 150 other medical institutions. A version of the system was installed at the National Cancer institute of Egypt. Dayhoff was chosen by the National Library of Medicine as one of the outstanding women physicians in America who "changed the face of medicine".
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Veterans Affairs' VistA Imaging Project since 1989. She served as the national projects manager and retired as Director of Digital Imaging in Medicine. As national projects manager, she supervised
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areas as I was growing up, and I had a choice whether to study computer science or go to medical school. So I decided to go to medical school to better understand not only the treatment of patients but the actions and knowledge of physicians.
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