Connections to NSFNET-INTERNET

盖辛格的广域网（GEN），连接三个主要盖辛格校园，将在1992年秋季完成。GEN的主要功能是支持临床活动，即，预约、日程安排、计费、采购等，通过互联网连接，GEN的功能可以扩展到包括Geisinger的研究和教育任务。通过互联网连接获得许多可用资源，Geisinger研究科学家，临床医生和教育工作者可以像在费城或匹兹堡的主要医学学术中心之一一样工作，而不是在风景秀丽，但孤立的农村非中心或宾夕法尼亚州东北部。通过Geisinger的互联网连接，药剂师将能够交换新药的协议，科学家可以向其他机构的同事查询蛋白质纯化技术，作者可以以电子方式提交和修改手稿，参与临床试验或协议的医生可以记录患者护理信息，接收更新，并在不离开办公室的情况下分享问题，学生可以与他们的家乡大学保持联系，图书管理员可以更有效和更快地传送和接收上述所有人所需的文件和其他信息。

Geisinger's wide-area-network (GEN), linking the three main Geisinger campuses, will be complete in the fall of 1992. While the primary function of GEN is to support clinical activity, i.e., appointment, schedules, billing, purchasing, etc., with an INTERNET connection, GEN's functionality can expand to encompass Geisinger's research and education missions as well. Given access to the many resources available through an INTERNET connection, Geisinger research scientists, clinicians, and educators can work as though they are at one of the major medical academic centers in Philadelphia or Pittsburgh instead of in scenic, but isolated, rural noncentral or northeastern Pennsylvania. With and INTERNET connection at Geisinger, pharmacists will be able to exchange protocols for new drugs, scientists can query their colleagues at other institutions for protein purification techniques, authors can submit and revise manuscripts electronically, physicians participating in clinical trials or protocols can log patient-care information, receive updates, and share concerns without leaving their offices, students can stay in touch with their home universities, and librarians can transmit and receive documents and other information required by all of those listed above with greater efficiency and speed.