In the mid 1960’s three US Navy Medical Officers ( Edward C Schmidt MD, Charles Morrison MD and David Schall MD) at the Brunswick ME Naval Air Station recognized the value of the online capabilities of the EHR then being built and tested in Boston at the MGH for care of military populations. They saw the value in managing the combined military and dependent healthcare at that site in a unified way. Their preceptor in the US Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (Richard Bernstine MD) recognized the value of this capability not only for care at fixed care facilities but also for deployed forces and he organized a project that drew on the emerging work at MGH as a developmental model. The project began in 196x and continued until 197x as an ambulatory care setting having basic functions: Registration, Scheduling/Appointing, Health History, Encounter-Data Capture, Problem Identification, Medication Prescribing, Laboratory Test Ordering and Observation Recording . See Reference A8 for a detailed report.