title: The telemedicine information exchange: an online resource.
abstract: Telemedicine is the use of telecommunications to provide health care services at a distance. It has grown from mostly government-subsidized research initiatives into a fledgling industry. This growth was fueled by decreasing costs of telecommunications and information technologies and fanned by rising health care costs. The telemedicine information exchange (TIE) (http:(/)/tie.telemed.org), developed by the Telemedicine Research Center in Portland, OR, is both a product and a vehicle of this rapid growth. It facilitates collection of telemedicine information from many sources, providing an easy-to-use hypertext format. This article describes the TIE's development, advantages and disadvantages of a web-based online library, and it's codevelopment with a rapidly expanding industry.
authors.affiliation: Telemedicine Research Center, Portland, OR 97201, USA.
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D005544:Forecasting; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D019146:Hypermedia; D007254:Information Science; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D007256:Information Systems / Q000191:economics; D020407:Internet; D007993:Libraries, Medical; D009862:Online Systems / Q000191:economics; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000191:economics; D014584:User-Computer Interface