Connections to NSFNET-INTERNET

连接三个主要校区的盖辛格广域网络(GEN)将于1992年秋季建成。虽然Gen的主要功能是通过互联网连接支持临床活动，即预约、日程安排、账单、采购等，但Gen的功能也可以扩展到包括盖辛格的研究和教育任务。通过互联网连接访问许多可用的资源，盖辛格研究科学家、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一样工作，而不是在风景秀丽但与世隔绝的非中部或宾夕法尼亚州东北部的农村地区工作。有了Geisinger的网络和互联网连接，药剂师将能够交换新药的方案，科学家可以向其他机构的同事查询蛋白质纯化技术，作者可以电子提交和修改手稿，参与临床试验或方案的医生可以在不离开办公室的情况下记录患者护理信息、接收最新信息和分享关切，学生可以与他们所在的大学保持联系，图书馆管理员可以更高的效率和速度传输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.