Internet2 Health Sciences

Mary Kratz

Chair Internet2 Health Sciences Working Group

Internet2 Spring 2001 Member Meeting

March 7, 2001

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

Topics

Internet2 Health Science Initiative

Health Science Workgroup activities

2001 spring member session

Why Academic Health Centers?

Provide intellectual capital

Pipeline for future investigators

AHCs serve as critical interface to assure that research advances get to patients.

Modern research laboratories and expertise

Focus on research excellence

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

Internet2 Member Universities185 Members As of February 2001

120 internet2 member universities have medical colleges

About 50 members active in health sciences

Strong leadership team

Working closely with AAMC/NIH/NLM

Hawaii

Internet2/NGI Relationship

U.S. Next generation internet (NGI)•Lead by National Institutes of Health•Affiliate member of internet2

Internet2•Led by higher education•Focused on research and education •National Library of Medicine partnerships

–Demonstrations–Workshops

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

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

Health Science Workgroups

Working Group VS Initiative

Internet2 Initiatives •Have a wide scope•Advanced Application Initiatives include:

–Health Sciences–Arts and Humanities–Digital Video

Internet2 Working Group•Focused on a specific activity or deliverable

–Multicast Workgroup–Security Workgroup–IPv6 Workgroup

Health Science Working Groups

Medical Middleware

Medical Security

Medical Distance Education

Regional Testbeds (connectivity in medicine)

Future Health Science Working Groups• Veterinary• Quality of Service• Structural Biology• Nanotechnology• Human Genome• Clinical Trials

Medical Middleware Working Group

Medical Middleware Leads• Rob Carter

–Director Systems AdministrationOffice of Information TechnologyDuke 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• Terry Clark, MedSchool.com• Up for options

OHSU and UPitt Internet2 Application

Visible Human Project creating content and tools

Numerous activities underway• Working curriculum between Internet2 Medical campuses

• Demonstrations

Collaborations

Visible Human Project Collaboratory

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 - No lead

–Utah

–Boston University

–UC

–NWU

–University of Illinois Chicago

–Kansas

–UIUC

Future Working Groups

Veterinary• Lead Gary Allen

Quality of Service• No leadership• End to End Performance or Application Initiative

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

Integration Role for Internet2

Virtual Laboratories

Biocomplexity

Security

Data Management

Multidisciplinary

NCRR reference

Spring 2001 Member Meeting

Working Group Meeting

Medical middleware lead by Jack Buchanan

E H R collaboratory Exploration lead by Larry Flournoy

Visible Human Project collaboratory lead by Donald P. Jenkins

Veterinary sciences lead by Gary Allen

Security and privacy lead by Jere Retzer • Guidelines for academic medical centers on security and privacy

• Future activities in security

Workgroup business meeting lead by Mary Kratz• Industry outreach sessions

• Upcoming sessions

• Action items

• Next meeting

Advanced Health Science Applications

Nanotechology Advancements• Mauro Ferrari,PhD, Ohio State University

A Multifaceted View of the Human Genome• David Wheeler, NIH NCBI

E-Healthcare Activities and International Collaborative Opportunities in Australia

• Prof. Peter Yellowlees, University of Queensland, Australia.

Medical Education and Internet2• William Hersh, M.D, Oregon Health Sciences University

Leadership Strategies: Investing in NGI

Discuss the value proposition of the medical domain for investing in NGI

Learn how to take advantage of NGI for academic and clinical applications.

Stimulate return on investment in high performance networking

Establish QoS to fulfil your business requirements

Sustain the investment in Internet2

• Jere Retzer, Oregon Health Science University

• Michael J. Ackerman, Ph.D., NIH NLM

• Ted Hanss, Internet2 Director of Advanced Applications

Contemporary Topics in Security and Privacy

Guidelines for Academic Medical Centers on Security and Privacy

•Practical strategies for HIPAA security and privacy compliance

–Moderator: Jere Retzer, OHSU

–Bob Blakley, IBM

–Bob Miller, Johns Hopkins University

HIPAA's Impact on Medical Schools and Teaching Hospitals

How have the requirements of higher education been address in the HIPAA regulation? How will advanced technologies be incorporated into HIPAA mandates?

• Moderator: Morgan Passiment, AAMC

• Bill Braithwaite, HHS

• J. Michael Fitzmaurice, AHRQ

• Ken Klingenstein, Director of Middleware Initiatives, Internet2

• Bob Blakley, IBM

Middleware Architecture Committee for Education in Medicine (MACEmed)

Building sustainable infrastructure for medical schools and teaching hospitals.Initially focused on building upon the activities of the internet2 middleware initiative.Review of current activities and future direction of medical middleware.

•Rob Carter•Jack Buchanan

MACEmed luncheon on Friday

Technology Demonstrations

Health Sciences Applications for High Performance Networking

Jointly sponsored by•AAMC GIR• Internet2

Invitation required for admittance•Please wear your Internet2 name badge

ACCESS Facility at Ballston•http://calder.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ACCESS/index.html

Joint Sessions: AAMC GIR

Saturday, March 10, 2001

The Washington Monarch Hotel• 2401 M Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037• Phone: 202/429-2400

General session • Are Leadership Skills the same Regardless of the Organizational Model?

GIR breakout session• Internet2 and GIR Share Leadership Strategies for Investing in NGI

Goals for this session

Set the future Health Science initiativeInformation sharing of advanced health science applications that use Internet2Share strategies for investing in NGIFocus session on Security and PrivacyFocus on HIPAA’s Impact on Internet2 membersTechnology Demonstrations Collaboration with AAMC GIR

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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