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Satellite communications technology for delivery of health information

The Multilateral Initiative on Malaria, MIMCom is an initiative in which the National Library of Medicine facilitates the exchange of information between several partners using a variety of telecommunication techniques, including satellites. NLM responsibilities include providing "communications and connectivity capabilities sufficient to provide, at a minimum: robust and reliable e-mail, links to other research sites, access to full text journal articles, database searching, exchange of large files and mapping data, and timely access to electronic information resources worldwide."

The following two URLs link to articles describing projects or initiatives in Europe-The first from researchers at the University of Crete and the second from scientists at a technical university in Munich.

An HL7/CDA Framework for the Design and Deployment of Telemedicine Services

A New Approach for Integration of Telemedicine Applications into Existing Information Systems in Healthcare

The Interactive Health Network (IHN) and WorldSpace have launched a satellite channel called The Health Channel. So far it appears to have been used primarily for teleconferencing, but other uses are envisioned. The technology and its first implementations are described at this site.

http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/index.php The NLM Communications Engineering Branch maintains this web site. It contains descriptions of a number of Satellite communication initiatives.

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