title: What it will take to create new Internet initiatives in health care.
abstract: Today's Internet cannot fulfill the anticipated future needs of health care organizations. To address growing administrative, clinical, and research communication networking requirements and to serve as a test bed for future technology, two separate initiatives, the Next Generation Internet (NGI--federally funded by the NIH/NLM) and Internet2 (a consortium of academic partners), are establishing project partnerships that will create new and improved opportunities for health care applications and interactions such as telemedicine, medical imaging, virtual medicine, home health care, public health, consumer medicine, medical education, and medical research, among other uses. In addition to creating and improving large-scale health care networking, it is also expected that much of the technology developed and tested for NGI/Internet2 will filter down to improve the mainstream Internet.
authors.affiliation: School of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences, College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612-7249, USA.
authors.forename: Rosemary
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Walker
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dieter
authors.forename: Walter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Panko
authors.forename: Annette
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Valenta
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D013685:Telecommunications / Q000639:trends; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface