Computers In Mental Health: An Historical Overview And Summary Of Current Status

Hedlund, James L.

doi:10.1109/scamc.1978.679914

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“…Mental health computer information systems, for example, which generally had been initiated by clinical researchers envisioning more systematic and comprehensive medical records, had shifted to a management emphasis (Hedlund 1978;Hedlund and Wurster 1982). The primary concern in evaluating medical technologies, including those involving computers, had become how &dquo;to be responsive to the current preoccupation of society with medical care costs&dquo; (Yamamoto 1979, 99).…”

Section: Medical Computing-rationalizing the Systemmentioning

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The Computer Prescription: Medical Computing, Public Policy, and Views of History

Kaplan

1995

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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This article traces past trends and current developments in medical computing in the United States. It suggests a link between shifts in emphases in medical computing and in federal government policy toward health care delivery. The development of medical computing was not driven solely by the internal imperatives of science and technology, but by dreams and visions of how computers could revolutionize medicine. Such dreams and visions constitute a mythical charter similar to ideologies and rhetoric used to mobilize support by other computerization movements. This mythical charter influenced development of medical computing by tying computing in medicine to policy goals. This charter also affected historical accounts in medical computing, which are characterized by technological determinism and evidence of cognitive dissonance due to failure to achieve policy goals.

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Section: Medical Computing-rationalizing the Systemmentioning

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The Computer Prescription: Medical Computing, Public Policy, and Views of History

Kaplan

1995

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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Computer Processing of Mental Health Information: An Annotated Bibliography

Hedlund¹,

Vieweg²,

Wood³

et al. 1981

International Journal of Mental Health

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Patterns of information system growth in community mental health centers

Bellerby¹

2000

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This research Was undertaken to determine whether the growth of computer-supported information systems in community mental health centers can be characterized by distinct stages of development. Data collection and analysis were designed to answer the following two questions: 2• Can distinct stages of information system growth be characterized by common profiles of computer-supported applications?• Are there characteristic groups of enabling factors (i.e., organization of data processing activities, management planning and control techniques, and user involvement) consistent among community mental health centers at any given stage of growth?This study draws upon earlier work by Nolan who identified distinct stages which characterize the growth in business organizations. Data for this study were obtained through a two-phase survey. The pre liminary survey identified which communit y mental heal th centers are using computer-supported applications. The second survey collected detailed data about each model component using a stratified random sample of centers using computer-supported information systems.Responses to the preliminary survey showed that seventy-nine per cent of the centers are using computer-supported information systems. In addition, the majority of centers with manual systems have plans to automate within one year. By contrast, a 1974 survey reported that only one-fourth of the centers were using computerized information systems.The number of c~nters using computers has therefore increased dramatically during the last five years.

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Computers In Mental Health: An Historical Overview And Summary Of Current Status

Cited by 3 publications

References 85 publications

The Computer Prescription: Medical Computing, Public Policy, and Views of History

The Computer Prescription: Medical Computing, Public Policy, and Views of History

Computer Processing of Mental Health Information: An Annotated Bibliography

Patterns of information system growth in community mental health centers

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