title: PC development gives Baptist Medical Center mainframe power.
abstract: Sophisticated distributed applications are easier to develop and maintain when prototyped using personal computer (PC) technology. Baptist Medical System, the largest hospital system in Arkansas, is using PC technology to prototype and then develop mainframe-based applications that augment mission-critical, distributed systems.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Kador
mesh_terms: D001131:Arkansas; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003204:Computers, Mainframe; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D008905:Minicomputers; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*