[The Internet and clinical medicine. An introduction to the biomedical information services available in electronic form on the "net of all nets"]. / Internet e medicina clinica. Una introduzione ai servizi informativi biomedici disponibili in forma elettronica sulla "rete delle reti".
Recenti Prog Med
; 87(5): 237-49, 1996 May.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-8767762
ABSTRACT
Clinical users expectations from medical informatics are evolving due to the wide availability of biomedical information services on the Internet. Thanks to hypertexts and advanced browsing tools users with no informatical expertise can travel on the Internet and easily gain access to textual databases. With a multimedia computer other kinds of information can be grabbed images, sounds and audiovisual documents. Basic Internet services (electronic mail, discussion lists, file transfer protocol, terminal emulation) can be accessed from a wide range of hardware equipment. However, the real power of a world-scale computer network like the Internet will be unleashed only when its global connectivity will be linked to the powerful retrieval ability of existing clinical and related databases. While biomedical journals editors and other medical information providers are in the way to offer electronic versions of their paper-based products, at the leading edge of this world-scale process is the USA National Library of Medicine, with the Internet-compatible version of its Grateful Med software which is expected to be launched during 1996.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Computer Communication Networks
/
Information Services
Type of study:
Guideline
Language:
It
Journal:
Recenti Prog Med
Year:
1996
Document type:
Article