Using World Wide Web multimedia in medicine

Medinfo. 1995:8 Pt 2:1519-23.

Abstract

The development of the Internet [1] has given us many types of information servers in the research and academic communities: anonymous FTP [2], Gopher [3], Wais [4], News [5], and the World Wide Web [6], which is now the most used multimedia information system on the Internet. It is user-friendly and can be used to interface existing information systems and to build new information services in the medical field. We propose to investigate (not exhaustively) the functionalities and applications of the system in medicine; we also present our own experiences of using WWW to distribute medical information.

MeSH terms

  • Angina Pectoris / drug therapy
  • Computer Communication Networks*
  • Computer-Assisted Instruction
  • Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted
  • Diffusion of Innovation
  • Drug Therapy, Computer-Assisted
  • Humans
  • Information Services*
  • Information Systems
  • Software
  • Systems Integration
  • User-Computer Interface
  • Vocabulary, Controlled