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Shodair Hospital

Suzy Holt, M.L.S., Librarian

The smallest hospital in the study, with only 66 beds, Shodair Hospital is a specialized children's hospital, providing psychiatric services and genetics services (e.g., diagnosis, counseling, fetal pathology, cancer risk analysis, chromosome studies, chorionic villus sampling). The Department of Medical Genetics conducts extensive outreach, holding special clinics in 12 locations throughout Montana, including several at Indian reservations.

I feel much more connected, much less isolated from my colleagues... The ease of communication -- the quickness with which I can get responses -- has already brightened my work day!

Jean Priest, M.D., Director of the Genetics Laboratory:

I'm the committee chair for our regional cytogenetics group; some of the group members are at academic institutions, but more of us tend to be at small, isolated labs, so the Internet -- the idea of a communications network -- is a good idea for us.

I upload data about chromosome abnormalities to an international collection of data using the Internet. It's a very good use. If you have your chromosome abnormalities and your nomenclature stored on your mainframe, you can transfer it much more accurately to the regional data office -- for me the Mountain States regional network. The Internet is a natural for a direct transfer of data. I'd like to see all of the regional and national labs sharing data like this. Right now some of it is available on CD-ROM and is being used that way only because some of the labs don't yet have Internet connections.

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