SHENANDOAH MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INTERNET CONNECTION PROJECT

说明(改编自摘要)： 谢南多阿纪念医院(SMH)是一家拥有129个床位的非营利性急性护理医疗机构 工厂位于弗吉尼亚州伍德斯托克镇。SMH的农村互联网 Connection Grant建议安装网关设备以连接现有 以太局域网向Internet提供高速 互联网接入和电子邮件通信。 这笔赠款中提议的活动有三个明确的目标： -提供乡村医生、中层从业者，如护士从业者 医生助理，药剂师，护士，专职医疗人员， 和SMH的管理人员可以高速访问基于互联网的 信息和图书馆资源。 -在医院内建立安全的电子邮件服务，并改善 并扩展与外部资源的电子邮件通信的可用性， 例如三级护理中心、国家机构和其他生物医学来源 信息。 -通过培训和教育增强卫生专业人员的能力，以纳入 信息技术在临床信息检索中的应用 行为，并整合基于互联网的信息和交流 资源，如NLM数据库和电子邮件，应用于 对病人护理的支持。 为了实现这些目标，赠款资金将不仅用于 购买和安装网关硬件和软件，但提供培训 在项目开始时为互联网用户提供课程和技术支持 并在持续的基础上。在整个企业范围内创建高效的 信息系统一直是SMH最长期的战略目标之一。 因此，SMH承诺承担所有持续的管理成本 计划在第一个项目年后接入互联网。

DESCRIPTION (adapted from the Abstract): Shenandoah Memorial Hospital (SMH) is a nonprofit 129 bed acute care medical facility located in the town of Woodstock, Virginia. SMH's Rural Internet Connection Grant proposes to install gateway equipment to connect existing ethernet local area network to the Internet in order to provide high speed Internet access, and email communications. Activities proposed in this grant have three clear goals: - Provide rural physicians, midlevel practitioners such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants, pharmacists, nurses, allied health professionals, and managerial staff at SMH with high speed access to Internet-based information and library resources. - Establish secure electronic mail services within the hospital, and improve and expand the availability of email communications with outside resources, such as tertiary care centers, state agencies, and other sources of biomedical information. - Empower health professionals through training and education to incorporate state-of the art information technology into clinical information seeking behaviors, and to integrate Internet-based information and communication resources, such as NLM databases and email, into everyday medical practice in support of patient care. In order to accomplish these goals, grant funds will be used not only to purchase and install gateway hardware and software, but to provide training classes and technical support to Internet users at the outset of the project and on an ongoing basis. The creation of an efficient enterprise-wide information system has been one of SMH's most long standing strategic goals. SMH is, therefore, committed to assuming all ongoing costs of managing the proposed Internet connection beyond the first project year.