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Epi Info™ Museum
Key Events in the History of Epi Info™
Epi Info™ Version 1
Menu of the first version of Epi Info™, implemented as
a DOS batch file.
A
27-page manual was added in February 1986 and the “Programs for Automatic
File Definition, Data Entry, and Tabulation“were now called Epi Info™. Distribution
was informal; anyone who wanted the programs was given a photocopy of the
manual and a 5 1/4 inch floppy diskette.
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The first field trial of Epi Info™ and
its companion “artificial intelligence“system, Epiaid,
was conducted in the investigation of a syphilis epidemic in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida, by Dr. Consuelo Beck-Sagué, then an
EIS Officer. |
The idea of high-level computer assistance in planning
an investigation never caught on, and the technology of the time did
not make the Epiaid programs easy to use. Epi Info™, with its
practical tools for constructing questionnaires and entering and analyzing
data, became ever more popular over the next few years.
 
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