New technology for multiphasic health testing

This paper comments on the early technology used in multiphasic health testing and reviews the more significant advances in biomedical instrumentation, computer technology, programming techniques and medical protocols which have taken place over the past few years. Multiphasic health testing in itself is still a new systems technology-first applied within the Kaiser-Permanente Foundation in the 50's and 60's, given a spurt during the late 60's and early 70's when industry decided it was a product ready to market, then languishing due to lack of physician acceptance and lack of third party reimbursement, and recently given new impetus through the growing popularity of Fitness programs and the in creased emphasis an environmental health monitoring. The theme has shifted away from early disease detection and toward health monitoring, and most technological advances have supported this shift.