Notes
Outline
Information Technology Laboratory
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Enabling Technologies
Software
XML Technologies
Conformance test development
Pervasive computing
Registries
Information Access and Usability
Retrieval
Interoperability
Human language
Security
Critical Infrastructure Protection
Encryption standards
Mathematics and Statistics
Key comparisons
Visualization
Networks and Communications
Service discovery
Self-healing networks
Health Care and IT
Infrastructure
Electronic patient records (clinical and administrative)
Public health
Biosurveillance for early detection of disease outbreak from natural to man-made causes
Pharmaceutical
Drug interaction information and patient applicability
Clinical research
Electronic record keeping and data submission
Pervasive computing
Placing the necessary information in the right hands at the right time
Industry says…
Problems:
Proliferation and lack of standards
Proliferation of non-interoperable systems and devices
Implementations that do not conform to standards
Lack of process/guidance for information assurance
Non-standard terminology
Lack of guidance for continuity of operations, backup, recovery
Potential NIST Contributions
Conformance tests
Information assurance
Certification procedures
Information integrity, confidentiality, availability
Registries/vocabularies
Web services protocols
Standards expertise
Data model expertise
Partners
Challenge to the Workshop
Detail the barriers to making use of emerging information technology in health care, including:
Enumerate specific barriers/opportunities
Prioritize barriers /opportunities
Provide feedback on potential NIST contributions
Create a partnership to help NIST make a lasting impact on health care
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