New institute shoots for the moon

The Institute of Medicine's (IOM) exhaustive study on the computerized patient record is finally complete. One of the study's first recommendations is to establish an institute for the computer-based patient record to get the ball rolling. Computers in Healthcare Editor Carolyn Dunbar asks a key leader of the IOM study, Richard Dick, Ph.D., why the ball is now rolling and picking up speed rapidly toward a true electronic medical record.