Global Health Network

Ronald LaPorte for theGHNet Reading

1990 Paradigm Shifts

Molecular Biology- PCRTransfer of Information-

The Internet

Time Trends Vint Cerf, one of the

fathers of the Internet

Time to Reach 50 million people 38 Years, Radio 13 Years, Television 10 Years, Cable Television

5 Years, Internet

Connect Everyone in Prevention Worldwide

Low band width, inexpensive,Information sharing, reachinglarge number of well people for preventing disease

Telemedicine High band width, expensive, information transmission, reaching small number of sick people for curing disease

Telepreventive Medicine

Changing Uses of Computers

Traditional Data Analysis and Word Processing

The Computer Network

Collective Intelligence

Top 100PC Magazine,1996Top 6 Global Information

Infrastructure Awards

55Publications

The Future of Prevention Ability to find informationCollecting of Data in Many PlacesCommunication with resource

peopleNetworking with people in and

out of public healthGlobal health network

NASA and NASDA Technology Transfer to Global Health

Global ExpertiseSecure

NetworksSatellite

connectivity

Global Health Network ComponentsConnectivityTelemonitoring of DiseasesGlobal Health Network UniversityNetworking NGOsCyber-docsGHNet HomepageGlobal Health Network Information Server

African Connectivity

Global Disease Telemonitoring

Rapid, AccurateMonitoring of Communicableand NCDs

GHN-U

“Distance education programs are usually much less expensive than conventional university programs”

World Bank Report, 1994

The Death of Biomedical Journals

British Medical Journal

Readings: 1, 2

GHNet Home Page:One-Stop shopping for Public Health

PublicHealth

MS LabsDiabetes

Lupus

Cancer

Trained in telepreventive medicine.

Go to areas to set up prevention networks

Targeted Access Server Science -- Uganda, Chile, China NEJM -- Thailand, Georgia, parts of

Mongolia BMJ -- Canary Islands, Tunisia, and my

house Who will have access is the decision of the

Journals

The Future?

Multilingual VersionScientific Communications

EnglishJapanesePortugueseSpanishGermanKorean

Enhancement of human ability to construct physicalobjects

Enhancement of human ability toconstruct mental objects: Collective Intelligence and Creativity

Global Health

InformationSuperhighway