Bringing Health-Care Applications to the Internet

  • Authors:

  • Bruce Davie;Valerie Florance;Andrew Friede;Jerry Sheehan;Jane E. Sisk

  • Affiliations:

  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Internet Computing
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

A United States study of health-care applications in relation to Internet capabilities found distinct, if not unique, requirements for the Internet's evolutionary development. Many health-related processes stand to be reshaped by the Internet. This paper presents a broad overview of the types of applications that the Internet can support in five areas: consumer health, clinical care, financial and administrative transactions, public health, and biomedical research. It also considers the technical challenges