Many physicians indicate that medicine is only now embracing the Internet and computers in general.
They worry that medicine has a long way to go to catch up to other fields such as finance and transportation. In this first segment, I hope to categorize and explain the difficulties and disappointments of computing experienced during the 1990's. In next month's segment, I will seek to explain why I believe that the coming decade will be much better, and why, in fact, medicine may be jumping into computing and the Internet at just the right time. Once a year, the systems would be shutdown for maintenance. Since then, the speed and capabilities of Intel-based computers have risen dramatically.