Upgrade of the
Telemedicine Information Service
3 February 2004. The service was
relaunched as the Telemedicine and E-health Information Service in January
2004. Please see the the new announcement for
details of the new website.
17 August 2001.
From Jim
Briggs, UK TIS
The UK Telemedicine Information Service is
now even better!
The website, operated by the University of
Portsmouth in conjunction with the British Library and sponsored by the four
UK health departments, has moved to a new server. This means that searching
the database will now be even quicker. Also access by NHSnet users should
now be unrestricted by the NHSnet firewall.
The address of the home page of website has
not changed, though if you have any bookmarks to specific entries within the
database, you may need to relink some of those.
We have expanded our definition of 'projects'
to include all telemedicine activities, not just pilot studies, including
where telemedicine is now playing a full part in delivering a healthcare
service. If your telemedicine activity is not recorded in the database, or
if any of the details have changed, please see the advice on submitting
information on the website.
As well as projects, we maintain information
on:
- companies involved in telemedicine
- people in UK telemedicine, and
- resources such as publications and
equipment.
Note that our publications database is not
intended to replicate other bibliographic databases, but is primarily for
unpublished or hard to otherwise locate resources. We are particularly keen
to improve the quality of the information held in the 'equipment' part of
the database, but can only do so with the help of suppliers and users.
Email us at
ndtm@port.ac.uk if you have anything to contribute in any of these
areas.
Contributions, updates and suggestions always
welcomed.
Jim Briggs
UK Telemedicine Information Service (formerly the National Database of
Telemedicine)
Postal address:
c/o Healthcare Computing Group,
Department of Information Systems
University of Portsmouth
Burnaby Terrace
Portsmouth
PO1 3AE
UK
Tel: +44 (23) 9284 6438 (6445 for general enquiries)
Email: ndtm@port.ac.uk |