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Found footage: Electronic health records – in 1961

This is an excerpt from a 1960s film detailing a "joint study" to determine whether "it was possible to eliminate the paperwork or at least part of the paperwork which has burdened the nurses and doctors in hospitals for these many years." The study was carried out by IBM and a children's hospital in Akron, Ohio.

Mr. R. Sherman, you were four decades ahead of your time.

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