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NLM Medical Connections Program
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The Medical Connections grant program provides "jump start" funding to academic medical centers, community hospitals, and other health care organizations to allow them to connect to NREN. Funding by the National Library of Medicine is provided to offset the costs of digital communications equipment, digital circuits linking medical centers with academic and commercial mid-level networks, and personnel and services necessary to connect to the NREN. During 1992-94 this program was administered for NLM by the National Science Foundation, which has long had a similar program for non-medical goals, but in FY 1995 NLM managed the program itself. Special emphasis is given to linking medical libraries with health care delivery organizations and networked databases so that high speed telecommunications can support delivery of timely and accurate information for clinical decision making. The program also supports distribution of Internet capability within an institution, and creation of regional consortia of health care institutions for sharing of medical information.
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Budget ($ M)
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FY 95 Act
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0.61
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FY 96 Pres
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0.62
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FY 96 Est
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0.82
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FY 97 Rqst
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1.22
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Program Component Areas
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FY 96
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FY 97
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HECC
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LSN
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0.82
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1.22
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HCS
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HuCS
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ETHR
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Agency Ties
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DARPA
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NSF
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DOE
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NASA
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NIH
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NSA
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NIST
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NOAA
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EPA
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ED
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AHCPR
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VA
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Milestone Changes
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Due to funding limitations, 1995 grant targets were reduced from 50 to 25.
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FY 1995 Actual Milestones
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FY 1996 Estimated Milestones
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FY 1997 Agency Requested Milestones
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Twenty-five grants were awarded.
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Approximately fifteen grants will be awarded.
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Overall program goal is to bring the top 3000 health care institutions in the U.S. onto the NREN.
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