Patient Records and Computers An Editorial Submitted to the Annals of Internal Medicine October 1991 Edward H. Shortliffe, MD, PhD, FACP* Paul C. Tang, MD Stanford University Stanford, California Don E. Detmer, MD University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia * Address for Correspondence: Section on Medical Informatics MSOB X-215, Stanford University School of Medicine 300 Pasteur Drive Stanford, CA 94305-5479