Integrating prevention with telecommunications can … be the key to the next renaissance of health … The concept of the global health network is that the new networking technologies improve information transfer a million-fold.
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: ”Prevention has been the key to improved health. Integrating prevention with telecommunications can … be the key to the next renaissance of health … The concept of the global health network is that the new networking technologies improve information transfer a million-fold. We need to harness this technology to improve information and data transfer. In doing this, we can gain much more timely information concerning communicable and non-communicable diseases in population, we can more effectively educate people, and we can produce much more rapid and accurate information to the people trying to prevent disease. The primary technology that forms the underpinnings of the system is the Internet … The Internet is very well suited for the establishment of a global health network. It reaches a large number of people, it is spreading rapidly, and it is reaching many of the people in public health worldwide.”
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
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