Lowe H J, Lomax E C, Polonkey S E
Section of Medical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
J Am Med Inform Assoc. 1996 Jan-Feb;3(1):1-14. doi: 10.1136/jamia.1996.96342645.
The Internet is rapidly evolving from a resource used primarily by the research community to a true global information network offering a wide range of databases and services. This evolution presents many opportunities for improved access to biomedical information, but Internet-based resources have often been difficult for the non-expert to develop and use. The World Wide Web (WWW) supports an inexpensive, easy-to-use, cross-platform, graphic interface to the Internet that may radically alter the way we retrieve and disseminate medical data. This paper summarizes the Internet and hypertext origins of the WWW, reviews WWW-specific technologies, and describes current and future applications of this technology in medicine and medical informatics. The paper also includes an appendix of useful biomedical WWW servers.
互联网正在迅速从主要供研究团体使用的资源演变为一个真正的全球信息网络，提供广泛的数据库和服务。这种演变带来了许多改善生物医学信息获取的机会，但基于互联网的资源对于非专业人员来说往往难以开发和使用。万维网（WWW）支持一种廉价、易于使用、跨平台的互联网图形界面，这可能会从根本上改变我们检索和传播医学数据的方式。本文总结了WWW的互联网和超文本起源，回顾了WWW特有的技术，并描述了该技术在医学和医学信息学中的当前及未来应用。本文还包括一个有用的生物医学WWW服务器附录。
