SJGBIO Newsletter page 4 Shortliffe, and an announcement of 2 AIM workshops. The second major part of this newsJetter is a special report on the impact of the new medicare financing scheme on health care computing. The subtheme in this second part is computerized, medica] decision-making, and so this edition of the newsletter could be called "A Special issue on AIM". EDITOR'S COLUMN BioMedical Computing is a specialty. A person who is expert in health care but has no interest in computers can not contribute to biomedical computing (nor can a person who knows computers but not health care). This newsletter is designed to facilitate communication among the specialists in biomedical computing. The IEEE has a Technical Committee on Computational Medicine that shares many interests with SiGBIO. Judith Prewitt, Chairperson of Computational Medicine, and Pat Speck, Editor of the Computational Medicine Newsletter, have agreed with Karen Duncan and myself that a joint newsletter makes good sense. The IEEE Computer Society has suggested that sharing of the costs of a newsletter with ACM is no problem. The ACM needs further time to consider the collaboration. Computational Medicine has for the past 2 years sponsored a conference called MEDCOMP. The
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