AHC Communications Technologies:
Recommendations for Skills Development and Use

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Note: This analysis presumes a significant upgrade in the overall availability and use of communications technologies.

  • Faculty-R = Research
  • Faculty-E = Education
  • Faculty-CC = Clinical and Community Outreach
  • Staff = Clerical and Administrative
  • Students = Professional and Graduate

    Essential = Currently is or soon will be an essential technology for performing ordinary tasks in an efficient and time-saving manner

    Recommend = A useful and time-saving technology now or will be when more widely available

    Optional = May be a useful technology and save time in some situations

    Technology Faculty-R Faculty-E Faculty-CC Staff Students
    Telephone/
    Voice Mail
    Essential Essential Essential Essential Essential
    FAX/
    FAX Broadcasting
    Essential Essential Essential Essential Essential
    E-mail Essential Essential Essential Essential Essential
    Desktop Computer Essential Essential Essential Essential Essential
    World Wide Web - Use Essential Essential Essential Essential Essential
    World Wide Web - Publishing Recommend Recommend Optional Recommend Recommend
    Electronic Calendar -- Group Systems Essential Essential Essential Essential Essential
    PDAs - Hand-Held Computers Recommend Recommend Recommend Recommend Recommend
    Pager Optional Optional Essential Optional Optional
    Cellular/PCS (alpha & numeric paging) Optional Optional Recommend Optional Optional
    Video Conferencing/
    Video Mail
    Recommend over time Recommend over time Recommend over time Recommend over time Recommend over time
    Video Server/
    Video-on-Demand
    Recommend over time Recommend over time Recommend over time Recommend over time Recommend over time
    CD-ROM/
    Digital Video Disk
    Recommend Recommend Recommend Recommend Recommend
    Videotapes/Audiotapes Recommend Recommend Recommend Recommend Essential
    List Serve Recommend Recommend Optional Recommend Recommend

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