Nuestro hospital universitario / Our university hospital

To speak about “our university hospital”, integrates automatically the history, the derived social responsibility and an essential academic project which persistence will depend on its own initiative, creativity and coherence in accomplishing specific objects. In the conceptual and action frame exposed by the Faculty ViceDean, he established the proposals, strategies and resolutions pretended to be perdurable in the long follow up, as a concrete expression of the professional and educational mission of its community.

Informática en la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Chile: II la red de la facultad y el acceso a bases de datos / Informatics at the University of Chile School of Medicine: II computer networking and access to medical data bases

Projects on informatics at the School of Medicine of the University of Chile are being brought about in accordance with both is institutional goals and present trends in techonology. Prominent among the latter are the widspread distribution of autonomous processing power represented by low-cost computers and the ease of communciation at local and worldwide levels. Our main project has been the design and start of a computer network that integrates the School's Departments and the geographically dispersed teaching hospitals. The principal services provided by the network are local and international elelctronic mail, access to data bases, and emulation of aminframe terminals (eg, to run remotely a mainframe's statistics software). Automated bibliographic search has been made available both through remote access to Medline data base and through local usage of compact disc (CD0ROM) versions. Since our network is open, it should become a forceful mean of assisting and integrating the biomedical community throughout the country

Informática en la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Chile. I: origen y evolución de la computación biomédica en Chile / Informatics at the school of medicine of the University of Chile. I. Origin and evolution of biomedical computing in Chile

In the sixties and early seventies, the School of Medicine of the University of Chile was the first Chilean institution to incorparate computers into academic endeavors through its own Computer Center. Later, professors were marginated form policy making which became oriented to adminstrative goals, but they compensated that situation with the easy access to personal computers brought about by present technology. In 1986, when School authorities were again elelcted by the faculty staff, professors were able to participate again in a committee designing projects in this area. Current development at the School of Medicine include a proliferation of personal computers, the implementation of a computer network with access to medicla data bases, and a growing number of apllications in the fields of research and teaching. In the near future, due to the accesibility of telecomunications and computers, these advancements should have an impact on the whole biomedical community, a situation that would restore, after many years, the traditional role of the University of Chile in the life of the country