Abstract
The tools of modern computer technology are the infants of medical research. Like infants, they reside in special, glass-enclosed, climate-controlled rooms and appear anything but spectacular. Their purpose in life, however, is quite spectacular for they could be the link between compilation of information and ready access to this data by all disciplines in medicine. Inspection by Medical News of health sciences computing facilities at two medical research centers—the Texas Medical Center in Houston, and UCLA's School of Medicine and School of Public Health in Los Angeles—revealed that data processing systems are being used to: Simulate and analyze chemical responses of blood to various factors in surgery more rapidly, precisely, and economically than conventional laboratory means. Aid in the analysis of huge masses of data assembled in a heart study. Develop an ultimate hospitalwide system of automated record handling storage and retrieval. Prove that complex biochemical experiments now conducted in
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