Ever since the early 1960s, the medical ready access to computer-stored med of subject matter and requiring vary world has awaited the promise of com ical records. Expert assistance in di ing levels of technical expertise. A typ ical issue might contain a review of an puterization. Many of us were fasci agnosis and treatment selection will be nated by the efforts of the pioneers: as close as the nearest telephone, which office practice management system Homer Warner's computerized diag will provide an immediate link to the --of interest to the physician, nurse, and office practice manager. Next to it nosis system, Octo Barnett's medical office computer. might be found a detailed article about information system, Howard Bleich's Since 1983, M.D. Computing has a language such as LISP and how it automated acid/base consultant, and explored and explained all of these as could be applied to medical problems, Warner Slack's history-taking program pects. Our magazine's major focus is on or a tutorial about real-time monitor were foretastes of what was to come. computer systems that serve the health At first, however, physicians and hos provider in the home or office environ ing of a patient's physiological state, along with book reviews and depart pital personnel resisted the computer ment. M.D. Computing has also ex ments reporting on pertinent comput because it was too slow, too fragile, too amined more general computer appli er news.