Alexander M
Health Communication Network, Essendon, Victoria, Australia.
J Telemed Telecare. 1996;2(1):1-6. doi: 10.1258/1357633961929079.
The Health Communication Network (HCN) in Australia is reviewed. Early interest from both the government and the medical community led to the establishment of a number of pilot services. Because of the community interest in privacy issues, determined efforts to understand and build structures to cope with privacy have been made. The first HCN services began to be tested in 1995, and progressive expansion is planned. The HCN, while supported by the government, is a separate, commercial entity, and much early work has thus focused on corporate governance, so that it will be able to do what it was designed for.
澳大利亚的健康传播网络（HCN）受到了审视。政府和医学界早期的关注促成了一些试点服务的建立。由于社区对隐私问题的关注，人们已下定决心努力去理解并构建应对隐私问题的架构。首批HCN服务于1995年开始进行测试，并计划逐步扩大规模。HCN虽得到政府支持，但它是一个独立的商业实体，因此早期的许多工作都集中在公司治理方面，以便它能够履行其设计初衷。
