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. 1994 Oct;82(4):401–406.

Community hospitals and the Internet: lessons from pilot connections.

S Rauch 1, M C Holt 1, M Horner 1, N Rambo 1
PMCID: PMC225965  PMID: 7841910

Abstract

Community hospitals in rural and isolated areas have had little access to the Internet. In 1992, the National Library of Medicine funded a pilot project to be conducted by the University of Washington and seven community hospitals in the northwestern United States. The goals of the project were to connect the hospitals to the Internet and study the uses made of this resource. A number of administrative, technical, financial, and organizational problems were dealt with in the attempt to establish the Internet connections and introduce this resource to these health care settings. This paper examines these issues and presents conclusions drawn from the experiences of the project team.

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