RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Microchips versus stethoscopes, part 2: Revisiting OSCAR at the Foothills Hospital JF Canadian Medical Association Journal JO CMAJ FD Canadian Medical Association SP 1601 OP 1603 VO 155 IS 11 A1 Powell, G. YR 1996 UL http://www.cmaj.ca/content/155/11/1601.abstract AB Several years have passed since the Foothills Hospital in Calgary installed a multi-million-dollar computerized patient-information system. When it arrived, the computer system known as OSCAR created controversy, anxiety and arguments among clinical caregivers who found it tedious, time consuming and cumbersome. Gregory Powell looks at how OSCAR has since changed the clinical landscape at Foothills.