Abstract
In the 1950s the clinical data in medical records of patients in the United States were mostly recorded in a natural, English-language, textual form. … Such patients’ data were generally recorded by health-care professionals as hand-written notes, or as dictated reports that were then transcribed and typed on paper sheets, that were all collated in paper-based charts; and these patients’ medical charts were then stored on shelves in the medical record room.