Box 1

Patient identification, DAB Lindberg et al on the medical engineering interface, communications satellites in health education, MEDLARS services, computerized bibliographic searches of medical literature, electronic publishing, information systems for the medical sciences, image storage and retrieval, etc.

Patient management, clinical decision making, etc.

Knowledge representation, computer networks, information-sharing systems, search and retrieval, machine translation, continuing medical education, computers in medicine, medical informatics education, etc.

Telecommunications, decision analytics, data security, fuzzy logic, computerized medical records, hospital information systems, medical writing, etc.

AI/RHEUM, biomedical education, 1950s-1970s materials about NLM, medical informatics, clinical decision making, DxPlain, AI in medicine, Human Genome, health communications, querying MEDLINE over the Internet, electronic radiography, etc.

International health, DeBakey work, searching MEDLINE, data for nurses, NREN, accessing full-text medical information, etc.

Deacidified paper, DeBakey on medical libraries, supercomputers and AI, automated vocabulary mapping, natural language search, physician attitudes, broadband, data collection, Bayes' Rule, library of the future, etc.