The Intranet ideas above can, of course, be applied to medical enterprises where one can use Web-linked databases combined with several different user interfaces. Here, we use Java so that we can customize the `look and feel' and access privileges so that doctors, hospital administrators, insurance companies, nurses, and patients can share the same information. NPAC has two interesting local projects--one with the University College of Nursing with a prototype system to help K-12 school nurses; the second uses simple virtual reality technology from David Warner, [Pulsar:97a] [Warner:95a], to allow disabled persons to both navigate the Web and to transmit medical sensor data from their homes to Web servers where it can then be analyzed conveniently by doctors.
