Workshop F: Webserver Applications for Hospitals and Medical Research Institutions

Half-day workshop on Monday, April 10, 1995
2:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Room: 48/053

The goal of this workshop will be to gather interest from Webserver administrators from hospitals and medical research institutions around the world and to discuss ideas for establishing standards for sharing information among us. The ultimate purpose would be to put useful data on the Web for potential patients seeking physicians with particular specialties, as well as sharing discoveries in the medical research fields among hospitals.

Topics for Discussion:

Medical Faculty and Staff Information
- specialist information
- medical research interests
- available clinical trials
- publicly available CVs
- e-mail addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers
General Hospital Information
- maps of interest to patients and visiting doctors
- admitting information
Medical Research Information
- current research interests
- current research breakthroughs
Organizational Outlines for Standardizing Hospital Webservers
- providing links to and indexing all hospital Webservers around the world
- establishing a main "Hospitals of the World" homepage
- establishing a global newsletter for hospital Webserver administrators

These topics are vital to discuss if we want to establish an organized plan for hospitals around the world who want to start their own Webservers. The ideal goal is to create a simple way for patients and medical researchers to get information from any hospital in the world. The benefits of this are tremendous.

Intended Workshop Participants:

Departmental Webservers are springing up in hospitals around the world. Anyone running a Webserver in a hospital or medical research institution should find this workshop an ideal forum for discussing the future of linking our servers and standardizing on homepages.

I currently run the MGH Neurology Webserver with Dr. Anne B. Young (Chief of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital), and am in the process of "rallying" the other departments to put their information on the Web. By working with Harvard and MGH's Information Resources Department, I am organizing MGH's "Main" Webserver. I look forward to discussing the techniques I've learned and hope to hear from many other Webserver administrators. By forming contacts with each other and developing standards, we can make the wealth of information on hospitals and medical research institutions available to the general public in an easily navigated "webspace."

The benefits to patients and doctors worldwide would be fantastic.

Schedule of Workshop F

2:00-2:30: Intial Presentation by John Lester
2:30-3:00: Discussion
3:00-3:30: Dr. Wolfgang Schoner, Medical Faculty of the University of Innsbruck
The Tyrolean Health Information Network
3:30-3:50: Discussion
3:50-4:10: Break
4:10-4:40: Robert Thralls, Center for Disease Control
CDC Wonder
4:40-5:00: Discussion
5:00-5:10: Closing Thoughts - John Lester
5:10-5:30: Final Discussion

For additional information please take a look on the chair's Web page!

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