Internet2 Health Sciences

Mary Kratz

Manager Internet2 Health Science Initiatives

Alliance for Higher Education

Richardson, Texas

6 April 2001

See http://apps.internet2.edu/health

Agenda

Internet2 Health Science Initiative

Health Science Workgroup activities

Advanced Medical Applications

                                                                        

"When the explorer is ready the guide will appear."

-- Himalayan Saying

(Reference from EVL at UIC)

The Scope of the Internet2 Health Science Workgroup includes clinical practice,

medical and related biological research, education, and

medical awareness in the Public.

With an Emphasis On:

Medical applications on the Internet.

Development of application tools to take advantage of Internet2 advanced network services.

Leverage and influence Internet2 resources to apply solutions to the medical domain.

Inform the medical community of these activities.

Goals and Objectives

Focus on research partnerships for advanced applications

Enhance collaboration and information sharing

Development of demonstrations and tools

Cooperate on standards to maintain global interoperability

Coordination

Clinical Care

Research

Education

Academia

Industry

Government

Two Bowers of Health Sciences

Health Care• HIPAA• System Integration• “Traditional Informatics”

Life Sciences• Genomics• Structural Biology• Clinical Trials• Nanotechnology

NCRR: Integration Role for Internet2

Virtual Laboratories

Biocomplexity

Security

Data Management

Multidisciplinary

Internet2 Member Universities185 Members As of February 2001

120 internet2 member universities have medical colleges (AAMC members)

About 50 members active in health sciences

Strong leadership team

Working closely with NIH/NLM

Hawaii

Roadmap

Networking Health: Prescriptions for the Internet

• National Research Council Report

• Current and future Internet• Released 24 February 2000

National Academy Press

ISBN 0-309-06843-6

Network of Collaborations

People to people• Collaborations

• Engineering expertise

• Medical expertise

Information access• Libraries and knowledge bases

• Data stores (ie. Clinical)

• Metadata definitions

Resources• Abilene backbone

• Advanced research applications and tools

• Facilities– Virtual laboratories– Super computers – Knowledge Clearinghouse

Application Attributes

Interactive research collaboration and instructionReal-time access to remote resourcesLarge-scale, multi-site computation and data miningShared virtual reality Any combination of the above

Health Science Workgroups

Health Science Working Groups

Medical MiddlewareMedical SecurityMedical Distance EducationVeterinary Medical Working GroupVisible Human CollaboratoryRegional Testbeds (connectivity in medicine)Future Health Science Working Groups

• Quality of Service• Structural Biology• Nanotechnology• Human Genome• Clinical Trials

Medical Middleware Working Group

Medical Middleware Leads• Rob Carter

–Director Systems AdministrationOffice of Information Technology, Duke University

• Jack Buchanan, MSEE, MD

–Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis

–Staff Physician, Memphis VA Medical Center

MACEmed

• Middleware Architecture Committee for Education in Medicine

• Electronic health record collaboratory formation

Medical Security Working Group

Security Lead• Jere Retzer

–Chair of the Portland Research and Education Network (PREN)

–Manager of Advanced Internet ProgramsOregon Health Science University

Workshop collaboration on HIPAA Guidelines

Plethora of future activities• CERTmed• “IRB”-like activity for security and privacy occurrences

Privacy goes hand in hand with security

Medical Education

Medical / Distance Education Lead• Bill Hersh, OSHU

Numerous web based curriculum

Visible Human Project creating content and tools

Collaboration with AAMC

Sharing of resources across universities• Expertise• Content• Knowledge bases• Application tools

Veterinary Medical

Veterinary Medical Lead• Gary Allen, UMissouri

Objectives• Connectivity of national veterinary schools• Sharing of resources (content, computation, etc.)

Use of digital video• Video conferencing• Lameness research

Collaboration with AVMA• Talbot Symposium in July• Planning session to establish deliverables

Visible Human Collaboratory

National Library of Medicine NGI contracts

Connectivity of research campuses•Stanford SUMMIT•University of Michigan•Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center• (University of Colorado)

Collaboration tools

Anatomy curriculum

Industry Coordination

Industry outreach and education• AMIA 2000• RSNA 2000• AAMC GIR 2001• RSNA 2001

Leadership strategies with AAMC GIR

National testbeds

Standards coordination

International collaborations

Digital Video Testbeds

Digital Video - Lead by Jill Gemmill (UAB)Access Grid – pending lead for Health Sciences

–Utah

–Boston University

–UC

–NWU

–University of Illinois Chicago

–Kansas

–UIUC

Future Working Groups

Quality of Service

End to End Performance• Visible Human Collaboratory

Clinical Trials

Biomedical• Leadership Team in formation• Nanotechnology• Genomics• Structural Biology

  http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Pubs/NASnews/97/09/ipg_fig1.html

The BIG Picture

Applications

Digital Video Applications

Broadcast TV quality videoconferencing

Both live distribution and on-demand access to a variety of content

HDTV-based digital cinema, network-based studio production, …

Collaborative Video ConferencingNational Library of Medicine, NIH

3D Brain Mapping: “Watching the Brain in Action”

University of Pittsburgh

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Teleimmersion

University of Illinois at Chicago

University of Illinois-NCSA

Old Dominion University

The CAVE

The Virtual Pelvic Floorand

The Virtual Temporal Bone

University of Illinois at Chicago

Immersadesk

Funded by National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health NO1-LM-9-3543

College of Health and Human Development Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago

Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Cook County Hospital, Chicago

Virtual Pelvic Floor

Funded by National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health NO1-LM-9-3543

College of Health and Human Development Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago

Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Cook County Hospital, Chicago

Virtual Pelvic Floor

Much More Information

Mary Kratz• Internet2, Health Sciences•3025 Boardwalk, Ann Arbor, MI 48108•1.734.352.7004•Mkratz@internet2.edu

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