


JR: You worked with Larry Weed for many years. Lawrence Weed at the Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital (CMGH). Call it serendipity or maybe fate, but someone steered me to Dr. It turned out my main interest was computer science and not mathematics. I moved to Cleveland and started working on a PhD in Mathematics at Case Western Reserve University. I stayed at Illinois for a master’s degree in math and also worked in an educational psychology computer lab developing SOCRATES, a very early computer-based teaching machine. I attended the University of Illinois, studying mathematics and very early computer science. Jan Schultz: I grew up in Chicago in the 1940s and 1950s. In A History of Personal Workstations, 1988 Where are you from? What’s your background? Jan Schultz demonstrating POMR on a Digiscribe, ca. John Rees: Tell us a little about yourself. NLM archivist John Rees asked Jan Schultz about his perspective on the early history of electronic medical records. Larry Weed at the PROMIS lab at the University of Vermont. Jan Schultz generously contributed archival materials from his work with Dr. The National Library of Medicine recently acquired the Patient/Problem Oriented Medical Record System Archives, a collection of materials related to the development of an early computer system for organizing patient data and diagnostic decision-making.
