A total primary care medical information system: duchess

Nowhere is it more amply demonstrated that computers have an important role in health care delivery than at this symposium. However, it seems that to the population of users, that we have a situation akin to the Tower of Babel. There are many isolated projects which demonstrate the utility of the computer in a given aspect of health care delivery. Yet there is no one system which combines a sufficient complement of thesa capabilities to make a strong case for broad scale implementation of computers in primary care. Duchess has made an effort to try to integrate many of the capabilities which have proven their usefulness in isolated pilot projects.