AN AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR RECORDING REPORTS OF CHEST ROENTGENOGRAMS

¹ Corporate Consultant in Radiology, Medical Department, International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, New York.

Based upon an experience with approximately 26,000 "apparently healthy" workers, an automated, computerized mark-sense system for recording the radiologist’s findings in the negative and nonsignificant diagnostic categories for the chest examination has been devised and tested.

The system, while faster and easier and more reliable than conventional reporting, is far more efficient than the customary method of reporting chest roentgenograms. In addition, it provides for the integration of any dictated material with any nonsignificant diagnostic items being automatically recorded. This system also includes methods for immediate and long range quality control of roentgenographic technique.

Computer determination of the percentage deviation from normal heart size as based upon height-weight standards can be easily initiated by the radiologist using this system.

The application of this system to other types of radiologic examinations could be easily arranged.

We believe that no single radiologic diagnostic code or classification can most satisfactorily serve the needs of all radiologists; yet, all systems should be interrelated.

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