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As We May Work: An Approach Toward Collaboration on the NII
As We May Work: An Approach Toward Collaboration on the NII
Pages 280-285
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Not only ~ } these networks be important mechanisms for providing superior economic performance and quality but they will also survive, largely because of their "adaptive efficiencies" that is, because they have the ability to adjust more rapidly to changing technology and market conditions, to produce more creative solutions, and to develop new products and services in a shorter period of time (Alter and Hage, 1993~. Public institutions such as schools, hospitals, libraries, social service orgy tions and state and local governments are also beginning to work together to provide their own services more efficiently, and they view the ND as an important too} for enhancing their efforts.
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Although they recognize the importance of natural language processing and the potential of optical-storage technology to reduce costs, they conclude that the technology wait only be available within the respective information systems Hat contain medical records and Hat new solutions such as the chip card or the hybrid card must be found in order to extend communication to all health care providers (ElIsasser et al., 1995~. The Digital Library Formation sources accessed through the NII also represent components of emerging universally accessible, digital libraries.
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By the same token, these communications are difficult to retrieve in any formatted sense because the unexpected, evolving, and interdependent nature of He information places an even greater emphasis upon natural language communication. In an attempt to avoid the inadequacies inherent in any classification system while at the same time recognizing that as the amount of available information grew there was a parallel need for a more precise way to retrieve specific data, a technique was developed for associating messages with each other that required no interpretation of the subject content of He messages (Greene, 1967~.
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It was found that during the early part of a crisis situation when messages throughout the command structure and In different locations were put into reference-connected sets, these sets in most cases uniquely identified particular events during the crisis. For example, one set that was construct from crisis-related message traffic found In files at three command headquarters contained 105 distinct messages that dealt with the preparations for landing airborne troops.
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Nevertheless, two important characteristics should be noted that illustrate this model's potential in supporting the collaborative process: . The subsets of a reference-connected set often correspond operationally to the sets of messages received at various nodes for the same event and therefore define "domains of information" stored and processed at each node in the network for that event or, in the case of health care, patient episode.
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1993. "The Role of Telematics in Improving the Links Between Primary Health Care Providers," Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care.
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