Tringali M, Iannucci P, Zani M
Unità di Gastroenterologia ed Endoscopia Digestiva, Presidio Ospedaliero, Aosta.
Recenti Prog Med. 1996 May;87(5):237-49.
Clinical users expectations from medical informatics are evolving due to the wide availability of biomedical information services on the Internet. Thanks to hypertexts and advanced browsing tools users with no informatical expertise can travel on the Internet and easily gain access to textual databases. With a multimedia computer other kinds of information can be grabbed: images, sounds and audiovisual documents. Basic Internet services (electronic mail, discussion lists, file transfer protocol, terminal emulation) can be accessed from a wide range of hardware equipment. However, the real power of a world-scale computer network like the Internet will be unleashed only when its global connectivity will be linked to the powerful retrieval ability of existing clinical and related databases. While biomedical journals editors and other medical information providers are in the way to offer electronic versions of their paper-based products, at the leading edge of this world-scale process is the USA National Library of Medicine, with the Internet-compatible version of its Grateful Med software which is expected to be launched during 1996.
由于互联网上生物医学信息服务的广泛可得，临床用户对医学信息学的期望正在不断演变。得益于超文本和先进的浏览工具，没有信息专业知识的用户也能在互联网上畅游，并轻松访问文本数据库。借助多媒体计算机，还能获取其他各类信息：图像、声音和视听文档。基本的互联网服务（电子邮件、讨论列表、文件传输协议、终端仿真）可通过多种硬件设备访问。然而，只有当像互联网这样的全球规模计算机网络的全球连通性与现有临床及相关数据库强大的检索能力相连接时，其真正的力量才会被释放出来。虽然生物医学期刊编辑和其他医学信息提供者正在提供纸质产品的电子版，但处于这个全球规模进程前沿的是美国国立医学图书馆，其与互联网兼容的Grateful Med软件版本预计将于1996年推出。
