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Ronald LaPorte for theGHNet Reading
1990 Paradigm Shifts
Molecular Biology- PCR
Transfer of Information-
The Internet
Time Trends Vint Cerf, one of the
fathers of the Internet
Time to Reach 50 million people
38 Years, Radio 13 Years, Television 10 Years, Cable Television
5 Years, Internet
Connect Everyone in Prevention Worldwide
Low band width, inexpensive,Information sharing, reachinglarge number of well people for preventing disease
Telemedicine High band width, expensive, information transmission, reaching small number of sick people for curing disease
Telepreventive Medicine
Changing Uses of Computers
Traditional Data Analysis and Word Processing
The Computer Network
Collective Intelligence
Top 100PC Magazine,1996
Top 6
Global Information Infrastructure Awards
55Publications
The Future of Prevention Ability to find informationCollecting of Data in Many
PlacesCommunication with resource
peopleNetworking with people in and
out of public healthGlobal health network
NASA and NASDA Technology Transfer to Global Health
Global ExpertiseSecure
NetworksSatellite
connectivity
Global Health Network Components
ConnectivityTelemonitoring of DiseasesGlobal Health Network UniversityNetworking NGOsCyber-docsGHNet HomepageGlobal Health Network Information Server
Global Disease Telemonitoring
GHN-U
“Distance education programs are usually much less expensive than conventional university programs”
World Bank Report, 1994
The Death of Biomedical Journals
British Medical Journal
Readings: 1, 2
GHNet Home Page:One-Stop shopping for Public Health
Public
HealthMS LabsDiabetes
Lupus
Cancer
Trained in telepreventive medicine.
Go to areas to set up prevention networks
Targeted Access Server
Science -- Uganda, Chile, China NEJM -- Thailand, Georgia, parts of
Mongolia BMJ -- Canary Islands, Tunisia,
and my house Who will have access is the decision of
the Journals
The Future?
Multilingual VersionScientific Communications
EnglishJapanesePortugueseSpanishGermanKorean
Enhancement of human ability to construct physicalobjects
Enhancement of human ability toconstruct mental objects: Collective Intelligence and Creativity
Global Health
InformationSuperhighway
