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Networking Health: Prescriptions for the Internet
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The Internet has great potential to improve Americans’ health by enhancing communications and improving access to information for care providers, patients, health plan administrators, public health officials, bio- medical researchers, and other health professionals. Ongoing research and development (R&D) efforts, such as the federal government’s Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative and the complementary Internet 2 program of the private sector, could help to realize that potential. Such efforts promote the creation and deployment of new networking technologies to enhance the Internet’s capabilities, enabling a growing range of applications in health and other sectors. But what technical capabilities do health applications demand of the Internet? How do these capabilities differ from those needed by applications in other sectors, such as banking, defense, and entertainment? What types of experiments and demonstra- tions should be undertaken now to learn quickly about the requirements and benefits of different health applications of the Internet? And how can the health community ensure that its needs are considered within the networking research community and in standards bodies that are defining future capabilities?
NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS - Organizational Body
0-309-51560-2
NONE
Information Technology
English
2000
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