title: Five years' experience with the Telemedicine Information Exchange.
abstract: The Telemedicine Information Exchange (TIE) has provided comprehensive telemedicine information on the World Wide Web (Web) since early 1995. It received major funding from the National Library of Medicine in 1997. Among other things, the TIE contains six major databases: literature citations; active telemedicine programmes; a 'what's new in telemedicine' column; funding opportunities; forthcoming conferences; and a list of vendors of telemedicine equipment and services. Recent additions include a document delivery service, inaugurated in early 1999. More than 1000 other Web sites link to the TIE, and we have 5000 visitors per month from several countries. Given its relative longevity on the Web, TIE researchers have been in a unique position to observe trends in telemedicine.
authors.affiliation: Telemedicine Research Center, Portland, Oregon 97201, USA. brown@telemed.org
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends