NCVHS National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII) Workgroup : Hearings on Health and the National Information Infrastructure and the NHII Personal Health Dimension Douglas Van Houweling, PhD President and CEO, Internet2 27 January 2003

January 27, 2003 Slide 2 Why Internet2? The Internet was not designed for: Millions of users Terabytes of data Congestion Multimedia Real time interaction Security But, only the Internet can: Accommodate explosive growth Enable convergence of information work, mass media, and human collaboration Internet2 is focused on the Internet’s potential for our future

January 27, 2003 Slide 3 Mission and Goals Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies for research and higher education, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s internet. Supporting advanced service efforts such as: Multicast IPv6 Measurement Security About: Internet2 Research and Development Commercialization Partnerships Privatization Today’s Internet Internet2

January 27, 2003 Slide 4 Non-Profit Membership Organization Consortium of more then: 200 universities (academia) 60 corporations (industry) 40 non-profits and gov’t affiliates

January 27, 2003 Slide 5 Internet2 Member Universities 130 Internet2 member universities have medical colleges (AAMC members) Strong leadership teams Health care focus Life science focus Hawaii

January 27, 2003 Slide 6 Government Affiliate Members National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Science Foundation (NSF) National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration(NOAA) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Department of Defense (DoD/DARPA) Department of Energy

January 27, 2003 Slide 7 University-led Federal agency-led Developing education and research driven applications Agency mission-driven and general purpose applications Building out campus networks, gigaPoPs and inter-gigapop infrastructure Funding research testbeds and agency research networks Interconnecting and interoperating to provide advanced networking capabilities needed to support advanced research and education applications Federal/Internet2 Relationship Internet2 IT R&D

January 27, 2003 Slide 8 What does Internet2 mean to NHII? High bandwidth, low latency applications Augmented Virtual Reality Enable human interaction through ‘telepresence” Secure access to information and computational resources

January 27, 2003 Slide 9 NHII Grand Challenge Organism(person) Organ Tissue Cell Protein Atom & organ systems (1m) (10 -3 m) (10 -6 m) (10 -9 m) (10 12 m) Systems models Continuum models (PDEs) ODEs Stochastic models Pathway models Gene networks Modeling, Simulation, Visualization, Software Frameworks, Databases, Networking, Grids Courtesy: Peter Hunter, University of Auckland

January 27, 2003 Slide 10 Roadmap Networking Health: Prescriptions for the Internet National Research Council Report Current and future Internet Released 24 February 2000 National Academy Press ISBN

January 27, 2003 Slide 11 Health Science Consensus More new information will be created over the next 2 years than throughout our entire history. Medical science will not be possible without advanced computing solutions. Instantaneous global communication is the worlds next “killer application”. R&D will become more reliant on academic & industry partnerships than ever before.

January 27, 2003 Slide 12 Health Science Activities Medical Middleware Working Group MeduPerson Security HIPAA Guidelines Authorization/Credentialing Veterinary Medical Working Group Virtual Grand Rounds Collaborations Visible Human Project Collaboratory Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) International Society of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology (SICOT) Clinical Trials Research Network Virtual Tumor Board

January 27, 2003 Slide 13 Security and Privacy Guidelines

January 27, 2003 Slide 14 Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN)

January 27, 2003 Slide 15 Virtual Tumor Board

January 27, 2003 Slide 16 Research and Education – Multidisciplinary! Biomedical Computing Medicine Physics Mathematics Chemistry Psychology Pharmacy English Bioengineering Computer Science Bio/Medical Informatics Mech Eng EE Chem Eng

January 27, 2003 Slide 17 Conclusions: Partnerships serve as a catalyst Direct Visualizations Data Collection and Integration Data Mining (BioGRID) Device intercommunication; remote instrumentation Haptic Immersion; Surgical Simulation Advanced sensor development;Nanotechnologies Augmented dexterity; telerobotic surgical navigation Advanced delivery mechanisms Wireless Data Collection Systems Ergonomic development Systems Engineering Standards Development Multidisciplinary Coordination Economic models for reimbursement realities

January 27, 2003 Slide 18 More Information On the Web health/internet2.edu Douglas Van Houweling Mary Kratz, Internet2 Health Sciences Program Manager

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