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Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General or MGH) is a teaching hospital located in the West End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. [4] It is the original and largest clinical education and research facility of Harvard Medical School/Harvard University, and houses the world's largest hospital-based research program with an annual research budget of more than $1.2 billion in 2021. [5]
Mass General Brigham (MGB) (formerly Partners HealthCare) is a not-for-profit, [5] integrated health care system [6] that engages in medical research, [7] teaching, [8] and patient care.
MUMPS ("Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System"), or M, is an imperative, high-level programming language with an integrated transaction processing key–value database. It was originally developed at Massachusetts General Hospital for managing patient medical records and hospital laboratory information systems.
It was originally established as a "Hospital for the sick poor," and admitted its first patient in 1886. From 1901 to 1975, the facility turned out thousands of graduates from its Cooley Dickinson School of Nursing, [5] including hundreds trained through an accelerated program during World War II for the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps.
Patient check-in is the process where patients begin their registration with the healthcare facility topically using a clipboard, electronic tablet, touch screen, kiosk, or by other method, sometimes self-service. Patient check-in start as far back as the Roman times when patients would wait for special services in purpose-built hospitals.
Boston City Hospital was the first municipal hospital in the United States, opening in 1864. [4]In 1960 Boston University's Medical School founded the Boston University Medical Center in the South End neighborhood to provide residency programs and research opportunities for students and faculty.
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In response to the influx of patients resulting from the combination of World War I and the 1918 influenza pandemic, the hospital erected a number of tents and temporary buildings. Patient records began to be kept in 1920, followed in 1924 by the establishment of an official hospital laboratory for bloodwork and urinalyses; the blood bank was ...