You can request advice on difficult cases on a discussion list or mail list. You can post your own page or information. FTP and Downloading Files FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, a methods of transferring files over the Internet. FTP was the most common method of transferring files before the Web became popular. So if you create Web pages on your PC, an FTP program is necessary to transfer these web page from your PC to the Internet server where your pages can then be accessed by Web surfers.
Medical informatics concerns computer applications in medical care.
Biomedical Informatics is an emerging discipline that has been defined as the study, invention, and implementation of structures and algorithms to improve communication, understanding and management of medical information. The end objective of biomedical informatics is the coalescing of data, knowledge, and the tools necessary to apply that data and knowledge in the decision-making process, at the time and place that a decision needs to be made. The focus on the structures and algorithms necessary to manipulate the information separates Biomedical Informatics from other medical disciplines where information content is the focus. The focus of this newsgroup is the discussion of the grand challenges facing medical informatics today. An emerging academic discipline and institutional priority.