HEALTH-RELATED INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM

摘要

A system for providing public and private health-related information over an open network. The system includes a server enabled to communicate with client devices over the network. At least one database, accessible by the server, stores public health-related information, such as health related news stories, intended for public dissemination. The database also stores definitions of multiple groups of users, and private health-related information, such as organization specific news bulletins or formularies, intended for dissemination only to the members of user groups. The server provides public health-related information to any client device, but the private health-related information is provided only to members of a group to which that private information pertains. Users, especially health-care users, are incentivized to use the system since it provides both public news stories of general interest to the user plus organization specific information. This makes the system more attractive to sponsors who wish to place on-line advertisements either to all users or to specific user groups.