Table 2 .
Years When Selected Topics and Terms First Appeared in the Proceedings
| 1977 | Medical record systems |
| Expert systems | |
| Imaging | |
| Automated instrumentation | |
| 1978 | Natural language processing |
| Privacy | |
| Security | |
| Patient-centered systems | |
| Medical genetics | |
| 1979 | Standards |
| Vocabulary | |
| 1980 | Public health |
| Health services research | |
| Copyright | |
| 1981 | Nursing informatics |
| 1982 | Library systems |
| 1984 | medline |
| 1986 | Regulation of medical software |
| 1987 | UMLS |
| 1988 | Molecular biology |
| 1991 | GenBank |
| 1992 | Internet |
| 1993 | World Wide Web |
| 1998 | Bioinformatics |