Abstract
The ECHO System developed at the Heart Station, Cardiovascular Center, University of Nebraska Medical Center was designed to facilitate the accurate mensuration of individual echocardiographic exams, the calculation of derived measurements and values, and provide for technician and physician commentary producing a machine generated report for the patient medical record. Each echo is scanned and digitized by the technician interacting with the computer system. After digitizing, further values are derived, the technician adds commentary and a draft report is generated for physician review. On final review, the physician can change individual values or re-read data points, as indicated, and provide his diagnoses and other clinical impressions prior to machine generation of the final report and archiving the patient data. The system runs on a PDP 11/03 running under RT-11 Version 3.0 and interfaces with a Graf Pen GP/40 digitizer and a Versatec Series 9000 Printer/Plotter.
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