Walker Rosemary, Dieter Michael, Panko Walter, Valenta Annette
School of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences, College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612-7249, USA.
J Med Syst. 2003 Feb;27(1):95-103. doi: 10.1023/a:1021065330652.
Today's Internet cannot fulfill the anticipated future needs of health care organizations. To address growing administrative, clinical, and research communication networking requirements and to serve as a test bed for future technology, two separate initiatives, the Next Generation Internet (NGI--federally funded by the NIH/NLM) and Internet2 (a consortium of academic partners), are establishing project partnerships that will create new and improved opportunities for health care applications and interactions such as telemedicine, medical imaging, virtual medicine, home health care, public health, consumer medicine, medical education, and medical research, among other uses. In addition to creating and improving large-scale health care networking, it is also expected that much of the technology developed and tested for NGI/Internet2 will filter down to improve the mainstream Internet.
如今的互联网无法满足医疗保健机构未来预期的需求。为了满足日益增长的行政、临床和研究通信网络需求，并作为未来技术的试验平台，两个独立的项目，即下一代互联网（由美国国立卫生研究院/国立医学图书馆提供联邦资金支持的NGI）和互联网2（一个学术合作伙伴联盟），正在建立项目合作伙伴关系，这将为远程医疗、医学成像、虚拟医学、家庭医疗保健、公共卫生、消费者医学、医学教育和医学研究等医疗保健应用和互动创造新的、更好的机会。除了创建和改进大规模医疗保健网络外，预计为NGI/互联网2开发和测试的许多技术也将渗透下去，以改善主流互联网。
