Comet: a system for micro, mini and mainframe environments

The exploding technology in micro and personal computers has stimulated knowledgeable occupational health professionals to examine their potential applications in their own work. Commercially available health surveillance systems are currently being offered in large minicomputers or mainframes. Does the revolution in hardware technology now mean that a comprehensive occupational health system can be supported by a small inexpensive computer? Such a machine-independent information system has been developed to perform data base management functions for tracking employee health status to discern potential health effects from workplace exposures.