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Global public health and the information superhighway
EDITOR, - Ronald E Laporte and others give a vision of how new technology - by making use of the information superhighway - can "vastly improve the accumulation and dissemination of information on public health."1 We agree that the possibilities are exciting but wish to contrast this potential taming of technology to benefit us all with the opportunity missed by the recently introduced "public health link," a cascade system for urgent communication between the Department of Health and NHS doctors.2
"Public health link" sets up a system whereby the public health doctor on call is alerted by pager to an urgent or immediate message from the Department of Health and is responsible for passing the message on to the next tier of the cascade. The problem is that the system is designed so that messages can be accessed only through EPI-NET terminals, which are usually situated in public health departments.
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