This group's job is to take technology out of the laboratory and put it to work in American businesses and industries. Private sector firms can assess their technology or test and create prototypes through the center. Links lead surfers to registration and information sections. Users can also subscribe to the National Technology Transfer Center for unlimited Internet access to the organization's public databases. Subscribers can specify detailed search criteria or browse through multiple databases of federally funded technologies.
Links also are available to several technology-related publications.
When all of this scientific lingo gets to be a bit too much, surfers may want to visit this home page to learn how specialized Internet services are made available to the individual consumer. Users are linked directly through the site to physicians, hospitals, insurance providers and other health care organizations. The home page has access areas for health care professionals and consumers. The consumer area features links to information about specific topics and health-related news sites. Subscribers have access to member benefits such as health risk appraisals and tools to locate doctors, clinics and health care providers.