"West Street MedTek Park"
Excerpted from a Times Herald Record article by Lyn A. E. McCafferty: "What's new is
what they want to build here: a medical technology park. City leaders have been talking
with local developer Walter Lambert about constructing five medical office buildings on
the old Anzalone Estate. So far, a foot doctor and a pharmaceutical firm are interested.
The medical park fits in nicely with the city's new strategy for revitalization - health
care."
The West Street MedTek Network is a new and different avenue of medical and community
technology that will be incorporated into the West Street MedTek complex. This complex
will serve as the hub for an Intermedia Frame Relay Network that will avail the Hudson
Valley and Newburgh to new areas of communication to vital and innovative sources. One of
the first steps in the construction of this network will be to connect to New York City
hospitals, Albany Medical Center, and other educational institutions.
This will bring the benefits of this MedTek research facility to the City of Newburgh and
the West Street MedTek complex. We also plan to connect this to other networks that
already have established content and services. As this network grows, the amount of
information and the variety of contact mediums will increase. West Street is prepared to
benefit from these services by incorporating these features immediately into their
practices. One of the attractive features for this network plan is to have a variety of
specialists who subscribe to this network. For instance, a physician in the Newburgh area,
through the use of the West Street complex, will be able to consult different specialists,
surgeons, and other information sources on a direct question basis. By allowing direct
questions that are specific to the individual case, an individual can quickly and more
accurately determine the next steps which need to be taken.
The West Street network, a private enterprise, has a unique advantage over many of the
current agencies that now provide information networks. The majority of these are
governmental or educational, mired down under governmental guidelines, information limits,
budget, and a limited variety of applications. Other independent networks are limited by
having to charge subscribers for and by having limited resources to gain additional
network features. The West Street MedTek Park will be free of restrictions that bind the
others.
This new network will be using the latest technology to transport applications,
Intermedias’ flagship product, Frame Relay. West Street is also planning to bring
other networks on line, such as BOCES Net and the Adirondack Area Network, as well as real
estate, supplies, pharmaceutical corporations, educational networks, and career centers,
which will raise the complex to be ‘all that you need’ for top professionals.