Timeline of medicine and medical technology

Medicine has come a long way.  Thanks to the evolution of technology in this field, important findings, have provided us with longer and healthier lives.  Bergeron states, "Prior to the development of clinical computing systems, the processes involved in creating, capturing, and retrieving clinical data weren't a major concern for most clinicians. Patient data were presented by residents to the attending physician during rounds, and orders were simply dictated to a nurse. Furthermore, the process of filing and retrieving a medical chart was the concern of the medical records department -- as long as retrieval was timely" (Bergeron).   He provides this information to allow the reader to imagine the difficulty and stress those in the medical field had to go through for each patient without making it hectic because it was the only way.  Today, with the use of a computer personal information and diagnosis can be retrieved in a blink of an eye.  This is a minimal problem that was present when computers were absent.