2. 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

3. Agenda  Internet2 Health Science Initiative  Health Science Workgroup activities  Advanced Medical Applications

4. "When the explorer is ready the guide will appear." -- Himalayan Saying (Reference from EVL at UIC)

5. The Scope of the Internet2 Health Science Workgroup includes clinical practice, medical and related biological research, education, and medical awareness in the Public.

6. 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.

7. 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

8. Coordination  Clinical Care  Research  Education  Academia  Industry  Government

9. Two Bowers of Health Sciences  Health Care HIPAA System Integration “Traditional Informatics”  Life Sciences Genomics Structural Biology Clinical Trials Nanotechnology

10. NCRR: Integration Role for Internet2 Virtual Laboratories Biocomplexity Security Data Management Multidisciplinary

11. Internet2 Member Universities 185 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. Application Attributes  Interactive research collaboration and instruction  Real-time access to remote resources  Large-scale, multi-site computation and data mining  Shared virtual reality  Any combination of the above

15. Health Science Workgroups

16. Health Science Working Groups  Medical Middleware  Medical Security  Medical Distance Education  Veterinary Medical Working Group  Visible Human Collaboratory  Regional Testbeds (connectivity in medicine)  Future Health Science Working Groups Quality of Service Structural Biology Nanotechnology Human Genome Clinical Trials

17. Medical Middleware Working Group  Medical Middleware Leads Rob Carter –Director Systems Administration Office 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

18. Medical Security Working Group  Security Lead Jere Retzer –Chair of the Portland Research and Education Network (PREN) –Manager of Advanced Internet Programs Oregon 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. Future Working Groups  Quality of Service  End to End Performance Visible Human Collaboratory  Clinical Trials  Biomedical Leadership Team in formation Nanotechnology Genomics Structural Biology

25. http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Pubs/NASnews/97/09/ipg_fig1.html The BIG Picture

26. Applications

27. 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, …

28. Collaborative Video Conferencing National Library of Medicine, NIH

29. 3D Brain Mapping: “Watching the Brain in Action” University of Pittsburgh Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

31. Teleimmersion University of Illinois at Chicago University of Illinois-NCSA Old Dominion University

32. The CAVE

33. The Virtual Pelvic Floor and The Virtual Temporal Bone University of Illinois at Chicago

34. Immersadesk

35. 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

36. 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

37. Much More Information  Mary Kratz Internet2, Health Sciences 3025 Boardwalk, Ann Arbor, MI 48108 1.734.352.7004 Mkratz@internet2.edu  www.internet2.edu  www.internet2.edu/health

38. www.internet2.edu