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The Texas Department of Health expanded its newborn screening program to include four disorders in February of 1980. Because of the large volume of specimens being processed (approximately 2500 daily), it was essential that laboratory aspects of this program be computerized. Currently, both laboratory and follow-up activities are linked by computer. The modular, microcomputer approach employed has provided the necessary capabilities to ensure accurate and efficient tracking of newborns from specimen submission through diagnosis and treatment. Continual program evaluations are also possible through statistical tabulations of various types of data collected and maintained in the system.
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Brown, L.O., and Therrell, B.L., Computerized follow-up system in the Texas newborn screening program.Advances in Neonatal Screening (B.L. Therrell, ed.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1987, pp. 559–562.
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This paper first appeared in the Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Volume IV: Applications. Washington, DC, Computer Society Press, January 1988. Reprinted here (in a slightly revised and modified version) by permission of the copyright holder, IEEE.
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Therrell, B.L., Brown, L.O. Computerized newborn screening in texas—A multiple microcomputer approach. J Med Syst 12, 115–120 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00997187
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00997187