The information superhighway can markedly improve public health … There should be a national and global commitment to tele-preventive medicine as the integration of telecommunication systems with public health has the greatest promise for improvement of health of our children, and ourselves.
Predictor: LaPorte, Ronald
Prediction, in context:A research group representing The Global Health Network, an international group with the hope of using the Internet to establish a better world of medicine and prevention, made the following statement in a research presentation at INET ’95, the Internet Society’s 1995 International Networking Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, June 27-30. The group included Ronald LaPorte and Ingrid Libman of the University of Pittsburgh; Anthony Villasenor, NASA; Carlos Gamboa, Pan American Health Organization; Eugene Boostrom of the World Bank; Eric Marler; Francois Sauer, AT&T; Shunichi Akazawa, World Health Organization; and Caryle Glosser. They report: ”Public health is information transfer. The information superhighway can markedly improve public health, but public health and prevention have been neglected. Tele-medicine to this point has not included tele-preventive medicine, but it should … There should be a national and global commitment to tele-preventive medicine as the integration of telecommunication systems with public health has the greatest promise for improvement of health of our children, and ourselves.”
Date of prediction: June 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Medical/Professional
Name of publication: ISOC INET '95 (conference)
Title, headline, chapter name: The Global Health Network
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.isoc.org/HMP/PAPER/231/txt/paper.txt
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney