[8692] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: future needs of the internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Gaeta)
Tue Nov 30 18:31:00 1993
From: gaeta@picker.com (Jay Gaeta)
To: stpeters@spare-parts.crd.ge.com (Dick St.Peters)
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 18:34:17 -0500 (EST)
Cc: rmholt@u.washington.edu, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9311302012.AA01773@spare-parts.crd.Ge.Com> from "Dick St.Peters" at Nov 30, 93 03:12:30 pm
In a previous message, Dick St.Peters said:
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>
> > 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.
>
> --
> Dick St.Peters
> GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
>
>
Dick, Rose Marie,
Greetings from RSNA... well sort off from RSNA...
I'm at RSNA, participating in a demonstration of DICOM (Digital
Imaging & Communications in Medicine), a medical imaging industry
standard for transferring images and other medical information between
computers. There are 20 companies participating in the demonstration,
all connected via TCP/IP and Ethernet to "neutral implementation"
Central Test Nodes (CTNs).
We are using a networking infrastructure installed by the RSNA organization.
RSNA installed an FDDI backbone that runs over both the North and East
buildings. There is also a 45 Mbit connection to the Internet.
I telnet(ed) from infoRAD where the demonstration is taking place (in the
North building) to the Picker exhibit booth in the East building, and then
to my workstation in Cleveland via the Internet to read my e-mail.
I guess another question might be what kind of demonstartions might be
possible next year given the availability of RSNAnet, and a big pipe
to the Internet (information highway)?
> 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?
>
Dick's point is well taken however. acceptance of this type of technology
by physicians is still in its infancy, and controversial in some cases.
> As a person who works on teleradiology, the question is of more than
> intellectual interest to me.
>
The possibilities for high-end teleradiology are exciting...
--
Jay Gaeta <gaeta@picker.com>
Picker International, NMR Division
Highland Heights, Ohio (USA) 44143
