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Ruth E. Dayhoff, MD — education (medical informatics)

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Ruth E. Dayhoff (b. 1952) is at the forefront of medical informatics. As the medical technologies used to diagnose disease have become more complex, corresponding new information systems have been developed to analyze, store, and present the new types of data. Dr. Dayhoff followed her mother, Dr. Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, into the field she pioneered in the 1960s, heading the VistA Imaging Project at the Department of Veterans Affairs—a unique, innovative system that was eventually implemented in all VA medical centers across the United States.

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