BMJ 1994;308:1651-1652 (25 June)

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Global public health and the information superhighway

New technology can vastly improve the accumulation and dissemination of information on public health.1 Vice President Al Gore has written that the United States's current national information policy "resembles the worst aspects of our old agricultural policy, which left grain rotting in thousands of storage files while people were starving. We have warehouses of unused information 'rotting' whole critical questions are left unanswered and critical problems are left unsolved."2 This also reflects the status of global public health: we have vast repositories of "warehoused" information on health, nutrition, the environment, demography, and society. Telecommunication systems will give us access to this. Moreover, much of public health and prevention depends on the transfer of information, which telecommunication systems provide very cost effectively.

From Bitnet to Internet

Discussions about the applications of networking to health care have typically focused on the potential of networking to transmit data (in particular, images) and to . . . [Full text of this article]


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