Fat Pipes Aren’t Enough: Health Science Applications See http://apps.internet2.edu/health Fat Pipes Aren’t Enough: Health Science Applications Mary Kratz Chair, Internet2 Health Sciences Working Group AAMC GIR Spring 2001 March 10, 2001

"When the explorer is ready the guide will appear."                                                                          "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. Enigma Machine and Bombe Armed forces have always been dependent on communications. During World War II, the German Army and Navy tried to keep their communications secret by using encryption devices called Enigma machines. These sophisticated coding devices could generate over 1 trillion different coding patterns. The Germans believed they were too sophisticated for Allied forces to break them. But in one of the best-kept secrets of the war, first the Poles, and later the British and Americans succeeded in deciphering messages. The wooden device in the foreground is a 4 rotor German Enigma machine, used for encoding. The large machine in the background is a "Bombe," used for breaking the code. Working out the details of codebreaking machines was one of the developments that fostered electronic computers. Smithsonian Photo by Laurie Minor-Penland.

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

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

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 OHSU Stanford UCSD UAB TAMU UIC UTenn NLM UMich WUSTL

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 instruction Real-time access to remote resources Large-scale, multi-site computation and data mining Shared virtual reality Any combination of the above

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

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