1. Medical informatics: An emerging medical discipline

   • Council on Scientific Affairs and Council on Long Range Planning and Development of the American Medical Association

   Articles Pages: 161 - 179

2. First pocket electronic reference offered to physicians by PDR

   • Gordon Conley

   Articles Pages: 181 - 182

3. Hospital of the future^SM—Not just technology “talk”

   • Doug Ryckman
   • Steve Rushing

   Articles Pages: 183 - 189

4. An application of data envelopment analysis: Measuring the relative performance of Florida general hospitals

   • Yueh-Guey Laura Huang

   Articles Pages: 191 - 196

5. The role of thematic evaluation in program assessment: The case of the community clinical oncology program

   • Dennis Gillings
   • Thomas C. Ricketts III
   • Edward Sondik

   Articles Pages: 197 - 211

6. Extracting knowledge from a large primary health care database using a knowledge-based statistical approach

   • Shamsul Chowdhury
   • Rolf Linnarsson
   • Ove Wigertz

   Articles Pages: 213 - 225