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A New Advance in Medical Information Retrieval

Richard K. Wertz, MD

JAMA. 1986;256(24):3376-3378.

Abstract
The massive production of medical information is being met by new technologies for storing and retrieving knowledge. Recent years have witnessed the maturation of time-sharing information utilities into a full-blown industry. In medicine these services have provided bibliographic information but have recently expanded to full-text availability of journals and books. Now optical storage technology, most conspicuously the compact disk read only memory (CD-ROM), provides similar massive information storage and retrieval affordable to microcomputer users. Such devices might replace many of the functions of time-sharing.

(JAMA 1986;256:3376-3378)

Author Affiliations
From the Diagnostic Pathology Medical Group, Sacramento, Calif, and The Roseville Community Hospital, Roseville, Calif.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to 2420 J St, Sacramento, CA 95816 (Dr Wertz).

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