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Robert Hogan, MD; San Diego; Harriet S. Meyer, MD

JAMA. 1986;255(2):243.

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Our first reviews of clinical software appear in this issue's BOOKS column on page 268. THE JOURNAL receives about 2,500 books for review each year and may ultimately receive an equal number of clinical software programs as suppliers continue to proliferate. Currently, more than 250 publishers furnish us with medical and related books for review, while a recent directory of software producers contains listings of 330 vendors of medical software, about a third of whom produce clinical software specifically.

We think that personal computers are additions to our libraries rather than replacements for them. In surveying JAMA's most prolific book reviewers, we found that 60% of respondents are interested—indeed, extremely enthusiastic—in reviewing computer software. Since practicing medicine means acquiring and using new material, including technology, it is no surprise that physicians have shown both the aptitude and the desire to use microcomputers.

Computers, as far as the individual physician . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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