The Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) contains a vast amount of information about the Medicare population. Common characteristics such as demographic, health status, and utilization of various services are included in the survey as well as other less known information. This highlight will look into the use of computers and Internet service by the Medicare population over time using data from 1998-2005 Access to Care Files. Demographic characteristics of the Medicare population who use the computer and Internet will also be examined using MCBS data.With the abundance of heath-related information available on the Internet, it is interesting to see how much of it is being utilized by the Medicare population. In 2003, the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act introduced the Part D prescription drug program. As expected, usage of the Medicare Web site (https://www.medicare.gov) increased significantly between 2004 and 2005. More detailed information about this trend will be available from the MCBS in the next few years.Other results show that 47 percent of the Medicare population owned a computer and 46 percent reported having Internet access in 2005. In many instances, owning a computer might still be a luxury item for Medicare beneficiaries. With health related expenses such as prescription drugs taking an increased percent of their disposable income, owning a computer might not be on many of the beneficiaries' priority lists. Other reasons for not having a computer or not having Internet access could be: lack of interest, confidence, or computer skills.Additional information about the MCBS, may be found at: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/mcbs.