Electronic Bulletin Board on Health Care

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The American International Health Alliance (featured in the October issue of Civil Society: East and West) recently established the AIHA Information Clearinghouse, which includes a computerized bulletin board and conferencing system. The system consists of three "conferences" (listed below) accessible to IGC/Glasnet subscribers. The conferences will include trip reports by AIHA partners, abstracts from health policy and medical journals, and other information on medical assistance programs in the NIS. The Clearinghouse will also provide an "on-line" forum for AIHA partners and other IGC users to discuss medical and health care issues.

IGC subscribers can access the IGC Conferencing system by typing "c" from the IGC Main Menu. At the "Conf?" prompt type"?" to see the commands available. The October-November issue of AIHA�s newsletter CommonHealth included a very readable four- page introduction to IGC�s Conference commands.

Non-IGC members cannot access AIHA�s conferences. However, AIHA can, upon request, send new submissions to the bulletin board as regular e-mail to users of Internet and other networks. For more information contact Mark Doctoroff at the National Public Health and Hospital Institute: (202) 408-0229. Or, simply e-mail your request to: [email protected]. For information on opening an account on IGC/Glasnet, call (415) 442-0220.

Conference:Information Indices and Sources

Address: aiha.info

Topics:

Discussion of Travel-related Topics
Computer Club (comments about e-mail, using Russian on computer, etc.)
Translations index
Health-related Assistance Projects index
NIS Health-related Legislation index
Equipment Exchange index
NIS Services index

Conference: Medical Clinical and Treatment Issues

Address: aiha.med-treat

Topics:

Emergency and Trauma Care
Infection Control
Medical Intervention (alcohol treatment, cardiology, surgery, etc.)
Medical Support ( diagnostic skills, dialysis, laboratory services, etc.)
Obstetrics and other Women�s Health issues
Pediatrics

Conference: Health Care Policy Issues

Address: aiha.med-pol

Topics:

Management and Finance
Health Insurance
Health Care Delivery
Medical Education (including nursing education)
Other Services (environmental health, equipment maintenance, rehabilitation)

This article is from the November 1993 issue of
Civil Society ... East and West

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The URL for this page is: http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/~ccsi/csew/93-11/hlthconf.html
Last updated: December 1993

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