FYI, perhaps Mary can tell us more about the opensource EHR activity that will be based on GEHR? Mary Kratz wrote: > At the Spring 2001 Internet2 Member Meeting, the Health Sciences Working > Group held an open meeting. In addition to project updates and a leadership > team report, the Health Sciences Working Group formed the following new > initiatives. (For general information about Internet2 Health Sciences > Initiative activities, refer to _http://www.internet2.edu/health/_.). > All materials from the Spring session have been posted to the website > (presentations, minutes, etc.). > > + Veterinary Medical Working Group > Health Sciences Working Group member Gary Allen (DVM, PhD, University of > Missouri-Columbia College of Veterinary Medicine) is now the chair of the > newly formed Veterinary Medical Working Group. Of the 22 Veterinary Schools > in the U.S., all but one is an Internet2 member. Many of these schools have > expressed an interest in working with Internet2 on advanced applications > and > leveraging the resources of the Internet2 community. This new working group > will begin raising awareness about high performance networking > activities to > faculty and researchers in these veterinary schools. Allen, along with > Internet2 Manager for Health Science Initiatives Mary Kratz, will make a > presentation Internet2: Opportunities for Veterinary Medicine this July at > the American Veterinary Medical Associations Talbot Symposium in Boston > (_http://www.avma.org/_). > > + Electronic Health Record Collaboratory > Larry Flournoy (Technical Director, Texas A&M University) will provide > leadership for collaboration activities around Electronic Health Record > (EHR) applications and architecture. Multi-media Electronic Health Records > provide base requirements for EHR applications that serve primary care > providers. A preliminary analysis of the open source Good Electronic Health > Record (_http://www.gehr._ <http://www.gehr.org/>_org > <http://www.gehr.org/>_) reveals a great amount of work on EHR > architecture from the European Union and Australia. The GEHR model > serves as > starting point for developing an architecture for EHR applications, with > Internet2 health science participants providing a forum for testing system > implementations and evolving EHR concepts to fit the needs to health > science > organizations. Open source sharing of intellectual properties to develop > EHR > applications, which will benefit frontline physicians, is a primary > objective for the EHR Collaboratory. Collaborations will encompass sharing > of people resources, in addition to data and information resources, among > all the participants. Leveraging middleware activities was quickly > identified as a key area for the Electronic Health Record Collaboratory and > they will be working closely with the MACEmed middleware architecture > committee on points of convergence. > > + Visible Human Collaboratory > Donald P. Jenkins (National Library of Medicine) led a discussion of the > Visible Human Collaboratory and presented examples of advanced applications > using the Visible Human dataset. Various approaches to using the data were > presented including that of an anatomist, a computer scientist and > engineer, > and a medical informatician. This newly formed collaboration includes > Internet2 members from multiple universities, funded by NLM NGI contracts. > Some of the activities planned for the Visible Human Collaboratory include > the sharing of tools, collaboration on anatomy curriculum content, and > collaboration on information architecture (Abilene network, Supercomputers, > end user applications, etc.). For more information, refer to > _http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human. > <http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html>html > <http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html>_. > > + Joint Internet2 AAMC Demos > In conjunction with the meeting of the Group on Information Resources, the > Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and Internet2 held an > evening of demonstrations on March 9 at the ACCESS Center in Washington DC. > The demonstrations showcased health sciences applications for high > performance networking. Some of the applications demonstrated included > telepresence in the operating room, stereoscopic rendered images and video > streaming, biomedical tele-immersion, the NLM testbed for collaborative > videoconferencing, and distributed medical informatics education. More > information about these demonstrations can be found at > _http://www.internet2.edu/health/AAMC_Demos/aamc_demos. > <http://www.internet2.edu/health/AAMC_Demos/aamc_demos.html>html > <http://www.internet2.edu/health/AAMC_Demos/aamc_demos.html>_. > > + New Applications Handouts Available > Two new Internet2 publications are now available. These handouts highlight > applications activities in the areas of digital video and the arts and > humanities. A third handout, featuring applications in the health sciences, > will be available soon. You can have a look at these publications and other > Internet2 resources on our InfoKit web page > _http://www.internet2.edu/html/infokit. > <http://www.internet2.edu/html/infokit.html>html > <http://www.internet2.edu/html/infokit.html>_. To request copies of > Internet2 > publications, please contact Tiffany Koma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > Feel free to contact me if you are interested in these new activities, > are interested in finding out about other emerging efforts, or have new > ideas to bring to the Health Science Leadership Team. > > -Mary > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Mary E. Kratz > > 3025 Boardwalk, Suite 100 > > Ann Arbor, MI 48108 > > V: (734) 352-7004 F: (734) 913-4255
