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SMJ On-Line: a collaborative partnership between the Singapore Medical Association and the Medical Informatics Programme of the National University of Singapore.
 
TWO IMPORTANT MILESTONES IN MEDICAL WEB DEVELOPMENT 
On 5 March 1998, both the Singapore Medical Journal (SMJ) On-Line and Health ONE will be launched. This event marks two important milestones in the history of medical web development in Singapore. Health ONE has taken six months to develop while the SMJ On-Line has taken three months of intensive work to be made available electronically. 

SMJ On-Line marks the beginning of a collaborative partnership between the Singapore Medical Association and the Medical Informatics Programme of the National University of Singapore. The collaborative partnership will be formalised by a signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding at the launch. 

Cooperation 
The areas of cooperation are specified in Article 1 of the Memorandum. They are: 
O  Publish and host the SMA Web Site on the World Wide Web 
O  Publish and update electronically the following services under the SMA Web Site: 
     i. the SMA News (monthly) 
     ii. the Scientific Section of Singapore Medical Journal (monthly) 
     iii. the SMA Membership Directory (monthly) 
     iv. SMA Council List (yearly) 
     v. SMA Constitution 
     vi. SMA Guideline on Fees (GOF) 
     vii. any other information on the SMA Web Site. 
O  Publish and host the MASEAN Web Site and assist in updating information as and when required. 

With this MOU, the SMA becomes the first collaborative partner with the Health ONE project. 

Behind the scene 
It has taken a whole team of very dynamic and enthusiastic crew to produce Health ONE, billed as the world’s first multilingual health information resource. The members of the Health One team can be identified by a simple mouse click on the Health ONE home page. It takes an equally dynamic and enterprising team to produce the SMA Website and the SMJ and SMA News On-line. The team members comprise Ms Diane Bun (also Health ONE manager), Ms Emily Lim, Ms Debbie Ng, Mr James Tay, Mr Lee Yoong Yao with Associate Professor Goh Lee Gan and K C Lun as advisors. 

An introduction 
Please see Pages N4 and N5 for an introduction of these two websites. The log-on main page of Health One is shown in Fig 1 and the main page of SMA Website is shown in Fig 2. Happy Surfing. 

A/PROF GOH LEE GAN