title: Medical informatics on the Internet: creating the sci.med. informatics newsgroup.
abstract: A Usenet newsgroup, sci.med.informatics, has been created to serve as an international electronic forum for discussion of issues related to medical informatics. The creation process follows a set of administrative rules set out by the Usenet administration on the Internet and consists of five steps: 1) informal discussion, 2) request for formal discussion, 3) formal discussion, 4) voting, and 5) posting of results. The newsgroup can be accessed using any news reader via the Internet.
authors.affiliation: Division of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Zakaria
authors.forename: D F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Sittig
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D007391:International Cooperation; D008490:Medical Informatics; D009939:Organizations, Nonprofit / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States