Navigating multi-media medical information systems using Virtual Medical Worlds

The organisation of information is critical in a society of the future, especially concerning health care. The introduction of a new standard called "Virtual Medical Worlds" provides the potential to organize existing medical information and provide the foundations for its integration into future forms of medical information systems. It is foreseen that the World Wide Web will become the most important communication medium of any future information society. Virtual Medical Worlds utilizes the WWW as a navigational medium to remotely access multimedia medical information system. The physical locations of the medical information and the pragmatics of accessibility are abstracted presenting a practitioner with a user friendly graphical interface. The first version of Virtual Medical Worlds, referred to as VMW 1.0, is an attempt to define an information infrastructure in an emerging telemedical information society.