[8827] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Canadian health care applications for the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Stephens)
Mon Dec 6 12:05:53 1993
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: stephens@clark.dgim.doc.ca (Andrew Stephens)
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1993 12:04:09
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>From: x-man@mgcheo.med.uottawa.ca (Michael Pluscauskas)
Subject: Canadian health care applications for the Internet
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1993 11:53:24
I am currently working as a consultant for Industry Canada, in Ottawa,
examining health care applications for the Internet. I have read the Report
on Computer Networks and Health Care from Cook Network Consultants and felt
that it identified some areas that I also had thought would be good points of
focus.
These areas included.
1) The use of the Internet (and other high speed communications networks) for
Electronic Data Interchange in medical claims processing.
2) The use of the Internet for processing and transmission of Medical Records.
3) The use of the Internet for the Health Outcomes research.
The report did an excellent job of focussing on what is happening in the US; I
am interested in a Canadian focus, although I would be glad to hear from
anyone who feels they can help. Because the report was published in September
I would be happy to hear about any new areas of work as well.
Because of the scope of the possible applications for networks in health care
I would very much like to hear from anyone in the Canadian health care field
with an interest in these areas as we are trying to get an expert committee
together to study how these technologies can be applied in Canada.
I will be posting this to a few other listserves and would be happy to forward
a summary of responses to anyone who requests it.
Thanks,
Michael.
