Biomedical Computing: Digitizing Life in the United States

Winner of the Computer History Museum Prize of the Special Interest Group: Computers, Information, and Society

Imagine biology and medicine today without computers. What would laboratory work be like if electronic databases and statistical software did not exist? Would disciplines like genomics even be feasible if we lacked the means to manage and manipulate huge volumes of digital data? How would patients fare in a world absent CT scans, programmable pacemakers, and computerized medical rec...