INPHO96: 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.

Please address comments or questions to Dr. Noam Arzt, arzt@isc.upenn.edu [9/4/96]
URL: http://nextb.dccs.upenn.edu/noam/inpho96/backgnd.html