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Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, California.
Corresdpondence and reprints: Morris F. Collen, MD, Director Emeritus, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, 3505 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94611. e-mail: <mfcollen{at}aol.com>.
Received for publication: 08/04/98; accepted for publication: 09/08/98.
By the year 2008, a major reorganization of health care services in the United States will have evolved from the solo- and group-practice models of the 1940s, with fee-for-service and insurer-indemnification financing and paper-based information systems, to nationwide managed care plans employing enhanced computer-based information systems.
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