It started with a tree. Always innovating. 3M Health Information SystemsData gone missing In the 1970s, medical informatics researcher and doctoral candidate John Morgan was trying to analyze medical data for the University of Utah. As he quickly realized, much of the medical data at the time was fragmented, incomplete or missing altogether. Medical records were all paper-based back then and also stored long-term on microfiche, not the easiest media to work with.Understanding the problem Morgan also discovered there was no uniform way for hospitals to code diagnoses and procedures, leading to wildly different and often incomplete medical record coding. He knew there was a better way to do things, especially with all the “new” computer technology at hand. In 1979, he helped fo

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