OFFICE MEMORANDUM ¢ STANFORD UNIVERSITY ¢ OFFICE MEMORANDUM

To : Dean Rich

From : J Lederberg, as P

rinc. Inv., ACME ro

ocT 4 1971

Date:

SUBJECT: Computer management in medical school

I just wanted to add my own concern about the urgency
of the issues raised by Elliott Levinthal in his

recent memo.

Rather a lot is at stake -- our ability to sustain

a facility of some import
haps should be the most c¢

The time-pressure is i
to formulate and submit a
development by January l,
several times postponed d
ACME support grants from
in potential support is a

Involved are issues of
management that far excee
pivotal issue, as Elliott

ance in medical education per-
ompelling to you.

ndicated, in part, by our need
credible plan for future
1972. This is an already
eadline for renewal of our
NIH. As much as $1 M per annum
t stake.

hospital and medical-care
d my insight and authority. A
pointed out, is the appoint~

ment of a professor of "medical information systems" to
assume that kind of responsibility, on the academic

side, and to complemert t
the Medical Center.

Co: EOL

he managerial evolutions of

Cordially

 

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