APHA96: Background
- New Jersey Comprehensive Immunization Program
- April 1994: Decision to build immunization tracking system. Needed a network architecture.
- No "useable" state-wide network.
- No desire to build (or re-build) private infrastructure state-wide.
- NJ largely urban and suburban. Good Internet penetration even back then.
- Belief that the Internet would be the place to be at deployment time more than a year later. This was a hard (but compelling) sell...
- Needed incentives for private providers to participate (80% of immunizations given by them).
- Wanted to offer Internet "goodies" in addition to the application.
- December 1995: NJ awarded INPHO status
Please address comments or questions to Dr. Noam Arzt, arzt@isc.upenn.edu [10/29/96]
URL: http://nextb.dccs.upenn.edu/noam/apha96/backgnd.html