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Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Vol 2, 215-219, Copyright © 1995 by American Medical Informatics Association

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Medical informatics on the Internet: creating the sci.med. informatics newsgroup

AM Zakaria and DF Sittig
Division of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.

A Usenet newsgroup, sci.med.informatics, has been created to serve as an international electronic forum for discussion of issues related to medical informatics. The creation process follows a set of administrative rules set out by the Usenet administration on the Internet and consists of five steps: 1) informal discussion, 2) request for formal discussion, 3) formal discussion, 4) voting, and 5) posting of results. The newsgroup can be accessed using any news reader via the Internet.


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