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     ** Hospital Computer Network Discussion Group and Data Base **
                 THE HSPNET-L MONTHLY ELECTRONIC DIGEST
                    Volume 3, Number 12, December 1992
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              Editor & Publisher: Donald F. Parsons MD, PhD

     Wadsworth Center for Labs. & Research, Room C273, New York State
      Department of Health, Box 509 ESP, Albany, NY 12201-0509, USA.
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** To DOWNLOAD from the LISTSERV Database: digests, individual messages,
Summary Hospital Network Consulting Files, mail these commands to LISTSERV:
                    GET HSPNET-L FILELIST
(note that the information on the right of the list is cut off so type
"right 30" on your command line). Select the File, Monthly DIGEST or one
of last month's messages with a command:
	            GET <filename> <filetype> HSPNET-L
Where typically the file requested might be:
	SOFTWARE COMPRESS HSPNET-L (for a summary file), or
	HSP9101A DIGEST   HSPNET-L (for a monthly Digest HSPyymm Pt.A), or
	HSPNET-L 91-00355 (Message No. 355 of 1991 with the given subject).
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as follows: "From the HSPNET-L Monthly Electronic Digest.  Hospital
Computer Network and Database Discussion Group (HSPNET-L@albnydh2.bitnet).
Moderator: D.F. Parsons MD (dfp10@albnydh2.bitnet; dfp10@uacsc2.albany.edu)"

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                           THIS MONTH'S TOPICS
EDITORIAL
                         N e t w o r k s
CLOSING OF T1-NSFNET
LINKING VA E-MAIL TO NIH ALERTS
FREE INTERNET DIRECTORY ON LINE
DEPT. OF DEFENSE MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM
                         D a t a b a s e s
NIH GOPHER
TELNET TO A DRUG DATABASE?
                         M e d i c a l  I n f o r m a t i c s
HEALTH CARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
BBS FOR TUMOR PATHOLOGY SLIDES
NIBNEWS FROM BRAZIL
X WINDOWS FOR DOS
COMPUTERIZED MEDICAL RECORD
EUROPEAN TELEMEDICINE
THE FUTURE OF MEDICAL INFORMATICS
MEDICAL INFORMATION SERVER
=====================================================================

Moderator's EDITORIAL:
Proposal for ADVLINE@NIH.node:
    A centralized Listserver for Federal and State Medical Advisories.

   Ideally this would be co-owned and moderated by NIH, FDA, and CDC. Its
purpose would be to give a one-stop advisory service that enables reports
to arrive on the practitioners desk PC via Internet.  Its formation is
seen as a catalyst for placing more federal and state advisories on line
and for enabling more physicians, administrators and statisticians to find
a use for Internet.  It would also catalyze a shift of federal and state
health agencies away from Bulletin Boards and private networks to the
public Internet system.  The following are among the reports that could be
included:
   CDC aids and other communicable disease advisories, monthly and
       yearly summaries, etc
   Canadian Ministry of Health advisories
   NCI CancerNet updates
   NLM changes in library services
   NIH Clinical Alerts
   FDA reports
   State Health Department advisories
   Nursing advisories

All the above agencies would have to do is to post a copy of the report
to ADVLINE.  It would then be automatically distributed to all subscribers.
Later, the LISTSERV could be subdivided (ADVLINE_NIH, ADVLINE_CDC etc) so
that health professionals can select what types of reports they wish to
receive.
The achieving of access and exchange of US state and Canadian health
information would be something of a victory for health providers, the
media and the public.  At the same time it would save time and money
resulting from present obscuring of information and duplication of
effort by health agencies.
    Send your views on this to me at dfp10@albnydh2.bitnet.  I will
return a summary of replies to you and suggestions about further action.
Happy New Year! Don

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                        N e t w o r k s

** CLOSING of T1-NSFNET **

 Ellen.Hoffman@um.cc.umich.edu

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, December 2, 1992
National Science Foundation Network achieves major milestone
T-1 NSFNET now part of Internet history

(Wednesday, Dec. 2) Like it's predecessors, the ARPANET and
the 56 Kbps National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET), the
T-1 NSFNET passed into history today when the last router was
moved to connect to the T-3 backbone service. As of 12:01
a.m. EST on Wednesday, December 2, the T-1 NSFNET backbone is
no more--its circuits are turned off--marking the beginning of
a new networking era.

When first implemented just over four years ago, the T-1
(1.5 Mbps) NSFNET backbone was state-of-the-art for the
Internet, deploying new levels of speed and management. With
improvements in routing technology, the Internet moved from
an experimental service to a production commodity. Demands
for higher speed services and increasing backbone traffic led
to the T-3 (45 Mbps) backbone service implemented over the
Advanced Network & Services, Inc. Network (ANSnet) that has
replaced the older T-1 NSFNET technology. The growth of
NSFNET promoted a global internetworking industry estimated
as generating billions of dollars in annual revenues.

In five years, the communications capacity of NSFNET has
expanded almost 700 times through the implementation of
leading-edge technologies, growing from 56 Kbps to T-3. Today
the network's backbone service carries data at the equivalent
of 1,400 pages of single-spaced, typed text per second. This
means the information in a 20-volume encyclopedia can be sent
across the network in under 23 seconds!

Today every major research, graduate, and four-year
university is tied together through NSFNET, along with
private and federal research institutions and industries.
Over 700 colleges and universities are connected representing
80 percent of the nation's student population and 90 percent
of the nation's federally sponsored research. Further, NSFNET
provides access to hundreds of high schools, libraries,
community colleges, and smaller educational instit
-- 

Donald F. Parsons MD, Wadsworth Ctr. Rm C273, NY State Dept of Health, ESP,
PO Box 509, Albany, NY 12201-0509. (518)474-7047 Fax: (518)474-7992
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