Medical informatics on the Internet: creating the sci.med. informatics newsgroup.
A Usenet newsgroup, sci.med.informatics, has been created to serve as an international electronic forum for discussion of issues related to medical informatics. The creation process follows a set of administrative rules set out by the Usenet administration on the Internet and consists of five steps: 1) informal discussion, 2) request for formal discussion, 3) formal discussion, 4) voting, and 5) posting of results. The newsgroup can be accessed using any [...]
Author(s): Zakaria, A M, Sittig, D F
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1995.96010390