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Bibliography of "Internet" citations on PubMed and the beginnings of Telehealth!

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Kim Solez, M.D.

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Dec 7, 2000, 3:00:00 AM12/7/00

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The literature on medical use of the Internet is growing very fast and is a
necessary background for new initiatives. You will find on
http://www.cyber-medicine.org a 2.8 MB Microsoft Word document with every
citation on PubMed containing the word "Internet" with nearly 7000 entries
and growing every day! The citations have been reformatted and the Word
document there is a considerable time saver over the option of doing the
searches yourself. We plan to update each weekday starting next week.

(We have placed a similar more focused "Bibliography on Nephrology and the
Internet" Word document on http://www.cybernephrology.org under the What's
New icon at upper left.)

Now for something really interesting:

The very first article on PubMed on the Internet is by John Hankins and
published in the journal Administrative Radiology 10(8):69-71, 1991. It is
entitled simply "The Internet". I am not the first person to note the
importance of this article. It is actually framed and displayed in a
prominent place in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. I spoke
with the staff of the Administrative Radiology Journal and learned that
ironically although it is a unique and important medical journal, and the
publisher of the first ever article about the Internet in the medical
literature, Administrative Radiology has no web site! The address and
contact information for the journal is 1305 W. Glenoaks Blvd., Glendale, CA
91201 Tel: (818) 500-1872 Fax: (818) 507-8715.

John Hankins was in 1991 the Interim Executive Director of CICNet in Ann
Arbor, Michigan. I can find nothing recent about him but am copying this
message to the current Director of CIC (Committee on Institutional
Cooperation) Barbara McFadden Allen, who may be able to provide further
insight into this history.

The article is marvelously forward looking. Amazing that to many of us T3
connections are the fastest we know. They are fully described in this 1991
article and compared to T1, and 56kB. The transition from text-based to
high bandwidth multimedia communications is also accurately predicted in
this publication written 10 year ago!

All the best. - Kim

Kim Solez, M.D.
Professor and Former Chair of Pathology, University of Alberta
Director, NKF cyberNephrology
Chair, ISN Commission on Nephrology Informatics
Director, Banff Conferences on Allograft Pathology and ISN Video Legacy Project
5B4.02 WCM HSC, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
University of Alberta
8440 112th Street
Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2R7
Canada

Phone 780-407-2607 (personal line)
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WWW Sites:

http://www.cyber-medicine.org

http://www.cybernephrology.org
http://www.isn-online.org
http://www.renal-tech.org

Recent WWW pages created by NKF cyberNephrology:

Media Coverage:

http://www.cybernephrology.org/education/eduPress.htm
http://telehealth.net/interviews/solez.html

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