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This article appeared in the October 1994 issue of the
Bulletin of the Medical Library Association (v.82, n.4,
pp. 401-406). This WWW edition is provided by permission of the
authors.
Community Hospitals and the Internet:
Lessons from Pilot Connections
Steve Rauch, M.L.S.
Library Coordinator
Merle West Medical Center
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
Mary C. Holt, M.L.S., AHIP
Director, Library Services
Shodair Hospital
Helena, MT 59604
Marcia Horner, M.S.
Director of Library Services and Grants Development
Kootenai Medical Center
Coeur d'Alene, ID 83814
Neil Rambo, M.L.
Associate Director
National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest
Region
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
This project was supported by the National Library of Medicine
through Contract Number N01-LM-1-3506. The contents of this paper
are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not
necessarily represent the views of the National Library of
Medicine or the other institutions participating in this
project.
ABSTRACT
Community hospitals in rural and isolated areas
have had little access to the Internet. In 1992, the National
Library of Medicine funded a pilot project to be conducted by the
University of Washington and seven community hospitals in the
northwest. The goals of the project were to connect the hospitals
to the Internet and study the uses made of this resource. Several
administrative, technical, financial, and organizational problems
were dealt with in attempting to establish the Internet
connections and introducing this resource to these health care
settings. In this paper we examine these issues and draw
conclusions based on the experience of the project sites.
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