May 18, 2000 | Read Time: 1 minute
By NICOLE WALLACE
Beginning this fall, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation will broadcast health-policy events — such as Congressional hearings, meetings, and press conferences — free on the Internet.
The Menlo Park, Calif., foundation will send subscribers to its HealthCast service a weekly schedule of events and an e-mail reminder the day before an event.
The Kaiser Foundation will also provide background information on the health topic covered in the event, links to related Internet resources, and, in some cases, interviews with the experts who will be participating in the event. The Webcasts will be archived online and searchable by keyword.
HealthCast is part of a larger project that the foundation is working on, the Kaiser Health Information Network.
The network will include daily online reports on health policy, HIV and AIDS, and reproductive health.
The reports on HIV and AIDS and reproductive health are already available both on the foundation’s Web site and via e-mail. The network will also feature a service that will provide audio, video, and analysis of health-related political and issue advertisements.
For more information: Go to http://www.kff.org.
