IEEE Milestone Dedication: MIS‑1 at El Camino Hospital

Love them or hate them, the world’s first hospital‑wide computerized medical information system was pioneered in Silicon Valley by Lockheed Missile and Space Corporation in partnership with El Camino Hospital.
From one hospital in 1974 to two hundred in the late 90s and still working in 2020, MIS‑1 proved what a true systems‑engineering approach could accomplish in healthcare. It let physicians and staff across all departments access patient data and enter work orders electronically — reducing costs, improving safety, and laying the foundations of modern clinical informatics.
Lockheed treated MIS‑1 the way they treated spacecraft: as an integrated system. Working side‑by‑side with El Camino Hospital’s clinical staff, they designed and configured the system in a way no competitor matched then — and perhaps even now. That collaboration led to the light pen, a practical solution to the user interface problem of the era — staff couldn’t type and the mouse hadn’t been invented.
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HYBRID EVENT
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HOSPITAL PARKING
Please allow ample time for parking.
Limited valet parking is available at the hospital main entrance.
The event is in the Conference Center on the Ground Floor.
Co-sponsored by: Silicon Valley Technology History Committee
El Camino Hospital, 2500 Grant Road, Mountain View, California, United States, 94040, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/554746