BROAD-BAND MULTIMEDIA FOR EDUCATION

Over the next five to ten years the accelerating development of comput ing and broadband networks will lead to a revolution in the ways in wh ich health care is delivered. Patients will spend less time in the gre at institutions of the tertiary hospitals and the illnesses taking the m there will assume a different pattern. The new information technolog ies will foster the emergence of general practices with a new emphasis on keeping patients in their communities for medical management. Know ledge exchange and delivery-to both patient and practitioner-will ther efore become an increasingly important component of the health-care sy stem in the next millennium.