[8680] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: future needs of the internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dick St.Peters)
Tue Nov 30 15:21:35 1993
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 93 15:12:30 EST
From: stpeters@spare-parts.crd.ge.com (Dick St.Peters)
To: rmholt@u.washington.edu
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
> From: Rose Marie Holt <rmholt@u.washington.edu>
> My question is - How many terminals do you all think will be needed at
> next yeaer's meeting, taking into account growth of the net use by
> private and academic physicians and by the pending boom in
> teleradiology. I'm betting forty.
>
> I know I have provided no data - I have none and would also be interested
> in any data you all have re: this exercise.
Rose Marie,
I was at RSNA last year and at Interop, a huge networking conference,
this year. Interop is in the same league as RSNA in size. They had
quite a few Internet terminals, about 75 I would guess, and most of the
time I was able to find one vacant without waiting. That suggest that
unless physicians really take to networking, 40 terminals is a pretty
good guess.
My impression of physicians is that they fall more or less into three
groups, those who get personally interested in things like networking,
those who believe there's value to it but want techs to handle it for
them, and those who are skeptical/hostile. Of course, these "groups"
are more like markers on a spectrum, with physicians distributed all
along it. Do you think many of your physician colleagues are going to
drift toward doing networking themselves?
As a person who works on teleradiology, the question is of more than
intellectual interest to me.
--
Dick St.Peters
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
