Broadband multimedia for education.
Over the next five to ten years the accelerating development of computing and broadband networks will lead to a revolution in the ways in which health care is delivered. Patients will spend less time in the great institutions of the tertiary hospitals and the illnesses taking them there will assume a different pattern. The new information technologies will foster the emergence of general practices with a new emphasis on keeping patients in their communities for medical management. Knowledge exchange and delivery--to both patient and practitioner--will therefore become an increasingly important component of the health-care system in the next millennium.
Mackinnon
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Flinders University School of Medicine, Adelaide, Australia. malcolm@n-space.com.au
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