IBM 5880
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The IBM 5880 was designed to analyze electrocardiograms, measurements of the electrical activity of the heart, and provide diagnostic advice to the same standards as a cardiologist. Similar programs already ran on mainframe computers, but the 5880 was the first version that could be placed in a cart and taken into hospital conditions.
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The IBM 5880 was not well received by doctors who at the time were being paid to read an ekgs. It was a threat to their income. Now the tech operating the machine could instantly see if there was a problem with the patient. The machine also had the ability to store and print ekgs. This presented a problem as to what was a copy and what was the original.
