title: Medical knowledge systems: applications to telemedicine.
abstract: The application and form of electronically stored medical knowledge has a direct impact on the design of any healthcare delivery system. For those who plan for remote medical care or who work at the disaster relief level, there are specific requirements which will dictate the type of knowledge required and the vehicle best suited to deliver that information. The PC based multimedia biomedical library developed for NASA was originally intended for long-term space missions where complete isolation from each support was a distinct possibility. The library is a combination of traditional references and secondary databases structured within a primary care physician's workstation. The integration of the library and a point-of-care system allows optimal use of both resources and provides a basic building block for telemedicine networking.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Grams
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Morgan
authors.forename: F S
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: G J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Iddings
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fiorentino
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Broughton
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D009862:Online Systems; D017216:Telemedicine