All boats rising. Interview by Eric Skjei

"When you're in big trouble is when opportunities appear. That's when you really begin to search the landscape for ways to change. It often takes dire straits or major stresses to effect change," says Frank Clark, Ph.D., chancellor for Information Services at the University of Tennessee, Memphis. In an interview with Computers in Healthcare, Dr. Clark says the university has begun building an ambitious information network, one that has attracted such partners as DEC, Apple, Siemens, U.S. Sprint and South Central Bell. With its underlying emphasis on information, resource sharing and preventive medicine, the Memphis Metropolitan Campus Network fits one cost-containment model that Clark believes we'll see more of in the future.