Information Technologies in the Health Care System: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, Secnd Session, April 21, 1986U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986 - 241 pages |
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Page 199 - Pharmacopoeia, or any supplement to them, • intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, in man or other animals...
Page 107 - For the stage subsequent to approximately the end of the first trimester, the State, in promoting its interest in the health of the mother, may, if it chooses, regulate the abortion procedure in ways that are reasonably related to maternal health.
Page 142 - And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with Men, if it be what should not be published abroad. I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.
Page 198 - And a device is defined as: [A]n instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, in vitro reagent, or other similar or related article...
Page 12 - Two diseases are competitors if the items not explained by one disease are a subset of the items not explained by the other, otherwise they are alternatives (and may possibly coexist in the patient).
Page 107 - This means, on the other hand, that, for the period of pregnancy prior to this "compelling" point, the attending physician, in consultation with his patient, is free to determine, without regulation by the State, that in his medical judgement the patient's pregnancy should be terminated.
Page 209 - House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Dear Mr. Chairman: In response to your request...
Page 113 - Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc., 425 US 748 (1976).
Page 9 - INTERNIST-I is described as follows: From its inception, INTERNIST-I has addressed the problem of diagnosis within the broad context of general internal medicine. Given a patient's initial history, results of a physical examination, or laboratory findings, INTERNIST-I was designed to aid the physician with the patient's work-up in order to make multiple and complex diagnoses. The capabilities of the system derive from its extensive knowledge base and from heuristic computer programs that can construct...
Page 5 - From 1929 to 1931 he was professor and chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago, after which he returned to the Mayo Clinic and Foundation where he became head of the Department of Medicine.