Technicon Medical Information System (TMIS)

Technicon Medical Information System (TMIS: the precursor of Eclipsys Corporation's TDS 7000) is one of the first Clinically-oriented HCISs. System development began in 1965 as a collaborative project between Lockheed and EI Camino Hospital in California. By 1987, the system had been installed in more than 85 institutions by Technicon Data Systems(TDS), which purchased the system from Lockheed in 1971. The TDS center could support from several hundred to a few thousand hospital beds depending on the size of the central machine. One computer installaton could serve multipe hospital. The hospitals were connected to the centra computer. Within a hospital, a switching station connected the telephone lines to an onsite network that led to stations on all the patient-care unit. Each unit had at least one VDT and one printer with which users could access, display, and print information.Forty years later, the TDS system is still in use in some hospitals.

Reference http://www.eclipsys.com/ Management of Information in Healthcare Organizations, Edward H. Shortliffe and James J. Cimino