Pictures of early healthcare IT shows how far it's come

The IBM booth at an American Hospital Association meeting in the 1950s showed off a new electronic time system for tracking employees


Pictures of early healthcare IT shows how far it's come in an article on the Hospitals & Health Networks website.

A photo of the IBM booth at an American Hospital Association meeting in the 1950s showed a new electronic time system for tracking employees.

Another photo from the 1940s, showed a predictive model of what a home computer would look like in 2004. 

A third showed programming punch cards from the '70s.

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October 7, 2016


Topic Area: Information Technology


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