Edupage, May 25, 2001

TOOLS TO HELP MEDICAL GROUPS BETTER USE THE INTERNET
The MedBiquitous Consortium aims to develop standards and
software applications for the medical community to use for
education and testing, collection of outcomes data, and online
journal publishing. Founded by Johns Hopkins University and a
number of medical specialty societies, the MedBiquitous
Consortium will turn to IBM, Rational Software, and Sun
Microsystems for technical expertise. John Hopkins and the other
members "want to be leaders in defining how the Internet changes
health care," explained Dr. Peter S. Greene, associate dean for
emerging technologies at Johns Hopkins' school of medicine. The
MedBiquitous Consortium includes the MedBiquitous Laboratory,
which will develop the new Internet tools, and MedBiquitous
Services, a for-profit unit that will provide the larger group
with Web hosting and other services.
(Baltimore Sun, 23 May 2001)