Advantages
- Cost
- No private network to lay
- Commercial companies bear the capital cost
- Tangible cost savings to using the Internet to connect remote sites to corporate network (Giga Information Group)
- Reduced training and support costs
- Potential for universal access by hospitals, health officers, consumers, providers, insurance companies (CHIN)
81% of respondents in the 1996 HIMSS/HP Leadership Survey reported use of the Internet in some capacity at their site
- Emerging, universal, platform-independent client very compelling (Web browser)
- Security
- Need to do formal assessment
- Need to protect information assets from destruction or alteration
- But, encryption technologies and secure Web products are now maturing and becoming more plentiful
- Not all data requires the highest level of protection
Please address comments or questions to Dr. Noam Arzt, arzt@isc.upenn.edu [3/27/97]
URL: http://nextb.dccs.upenn.edu/noam/akc97/why.html