The UK Telemedicine Information Service (http://www.tis.bl.uk) is now even
better!

The website, operated by the University of Portsmouth in conjunction with
the British Library and sponsored by the four home health departments, has
moved to a new server. This means that searching the database will now be
even quicker. Also access by NHSnet users should now be unrestricted by the
NHSnet firewall.

The address of the home page of website has not changed, though if you have
any bookmarks to specific entries within the database, you may need to
relink some of those.

We have expanded our definition of "projects" to include all telemedicine
activities, not just pilot studies, including where telemedicine is now
playing a full part in delivering a healthcare service. If your
telemedicine activity is not recorded in the database, or if any of the
details have changed, please see the advice at
http://www.tis.bl.uk/readers/contribute.htm on submitting information.

As well as projects, we maintain information on:
* companies involved in telemedicine
* people in UK telemedicine, and
* resources such as publications and equipment.
Note that our publications database is not intended to replicate other
bibliographic databases, but is primarily for unpublished or hard to
otherwise locate resources. We are particularly keen to improve the quality
of the information held in the "equipment" part of the database, but can
only do so with the help of suppliers and users.
Email us at [log in to unmask] if you have anything to contribute in any of
these areas.

Contributions, updates and suggestions always welcomed.

Apologies if you receive this message more than once.

Jim Briggs.


UK Telemedicine Information Service (formerly the National Database of
Telemedicine)
Visit the site at http://www.tis.bl.uk

Postal address:
c/o Healthcare Computing Group,
Department of Information Systems, University of Portsmouth
Burnaby Terrace, Portsmouth, PO1 3AE, UK
Tel: +44 (23) 9284 6438 (6445 for general enquiries)
Email: [log in to unmask]