title: CD-ROM. A new advance in medical information retrieval.
abstract: The massive production of medical information is being met by new technologies for storing and retrieving knowledge. Recent years have witnessed the maturation of time-sharing information utilities into a full-blown industry. In medicine these services have provided bibliographic information but have recently expanded to full-text availability of journals and books. Now optical storage technology, most conspicuously the compact disk read only memory (CD-ROM), provides similar massive information storage and retrieval affordable to microcomputer users. Such devices might replace many of the functions of time-sharing.
mesh_terms: D003201:Computers; D005544:Forecasting; D007256:Information Systems / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000639:trends*; D007834:Lasers; D008523:MEDLARS; D008838:Microcomputers; D013672:Technology / Q000295:instrumentation; D014481:United States