Internet2 Health Sciences

Mary KratzManager Internet2 Health Science Initiatives

Coalition for Networked InformationWashington, DC10 April 2001

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

People on the Internet

Source:Nua Internet Surveys

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Millions of People

Yesterday’s Internet

Thousands of usersRemote login, file transferInterconnect mainframe computersApplications capitalize on underlying technology

Today’s Internet

Millions of usersWeb, email, low-quality audio & video

• “World Wide Wait”Interconnect personal computers and serversApplications adapt to underlying technology

Today’s Internet Doesn’t

Provide reliable end-to-end performanceEncourage cooperation on new capabilitiesAllow testing of new technologiesSupport development of revolutionary applications

Tomorrow’s Internet

Billions of users and devicesConvergence of today’s applications with multimedia (telephony, video-conference, HDTV)Interconnect personal computers, servers, and embedded computersNew technologies enable unanticipated applications (and create new challenges)

Challenges to Higher Education

Human Computer Interaction•Virtual learning environments•Virtual meetings and seminars•Shared authoring and research collaboration

Remote instrumentation is cumbersomeAccess between higher edu resources and corporate environments restrictedDistributed large scale computing and database

Internet2 Mission

Develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet.

Internet2 Goals

Enable new generation of applications

Re-create leading edge R&E network capability

Transfer technology and experience to the global production Internet

Internet2 Corporate Partners

3ComAdvanced Network & ServicesAlcatelAT&TCisco SystemsIBMITC^DeltacomLucent Technologies

Marconi CommunicationsMicrosoftNortel NetworksQwest CommunicationsSBC CommunicationsSpirent CommunicationsWCI CableWorldCom

Additional Participation

Over 70 Internet2 Corporate MembersOver 40 Affiliate MembersOver 30 International Partners

Internet2 Universities185 Universities as of April 2001

Internet2 Backbone Networks

Donna Cox,Robert Patterson, NCSA

Abilene Network

-Qwest

Internet2 GigaPoPs27 as of April 2001

Abilene NetworkLogical Map

Internet2 Focus Areas

Advanced Network InfrastructureMiddlewareNew Network CapabilitiesAdvanced ApplicationsPartnerships

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(Comparison of the Internet2 Land Speed Record)

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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

Advanced Applications

Distributed computationVirtual laboratoriesDigital librariesDistributed learningDigital videoTele-immersionAll of the above in combination

Health Sciences

Internet2 Health Science InitiativeHealth Science Workgroup activitiesAdvanced 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 applicationsEnhance collaboration and information sharingDevelopment of demonstrations and toolsCooperate on standards to maintain global interoperability

Coordination

Clinical CareResearchEducation

AcademiaIndustryGovernment

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

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

Internet2 and the Next Generation Internet Initiative

Internet2 NGI

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 CollaborationsPeople 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

Health Science Working GroupsMedical 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 Programs

Oregon Health Science University

Workshop collaboration on HIPAA GuidelinesPlethora 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 toolsCollaboration with AAMCSharing 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 contractsConnectivity of research campuses

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

Collaboration toolsAnatomy curriculum

Industry Coordination

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

Leadership strategies with AAMC GIRNational testbeds Standards coordinationInternational 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 ServiceEnd to End Performance

• Visible Human Collaboratory

Clinical TrialsBiomedical

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

  http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Pubs/NASnews/97/09/ipg_fig1.htmlThe BIG Picture

Applications

Digital Video Applications

Broadcast TV quality videoconferencingBoth live distribution and on-demand access to a variety of contentHDTV-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 UniversityPittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Teleimmersion

University of Illinois at ChicagoUniversity of Illinois-NCSAOld 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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