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The report is 8 pages and can be ordered from the GAO at P.O. Box 6015, Gaithersburg, MD 20877. To briefly summarize the report, they identified 78 cases involving unreliable computerized medical devices that occurred from June 1976 to August 1979. They state that the believe this is only a small fraction of the total cases that occurred. They examined 24 of the cases and found 13 of them had software problems. However, software has been and remains a problem area, regardless of whether it is used in medical or business applications.