Information Infrastructure For Healthcare (September 1995)

Healthcare Information Technology Enabling Community Care

Sponsor: Advanced Technology Institute (formerly South Carolina Research Authority)

• Project Performance Period: 9/25/1995 - 4/30/1999
• Total project (est.): $39,069,964.00
• Requested ATP funds: $19,167,279.00

HITECC, a joint project conceived by the HOST (Healthcare Open Systems and Trials) consortium and led by the South Carolina Research Authority, is developing capabilities necessary to establish the community-wide computerized information sharing essential to reducing healthcare costs and inefficiencies. This extensive partnership, including industry, clinical facilities, universities and national laboratories, combines expertise in healthcare, communications, and information technologies to exploit technologies that will transform fragmented healthcare data into an integrated, community-wide computerized information resource. HITECC, by giving healthcare providers secure and simple access to this information, will allow a fundamental change from episodic treatment to individualized managed healthcare. To realize this goal, the team will focus on three technology capabilities: (1) Integrated Multi-Media Function will provide integrated access and management of the different kinds of data in an affordable and user-friendly manner; (2) Community-Wide Secure Information Sharing will provide the technology to effectively balance privacy and confidentiality of personal information with easy access by legitimate healthcare providers; and (3) Collaborative Computing addresses the need for reliable and cost-effective transmission of high-resolution, high-fidelity medical imagery across existing communication lines. These three capabilities will establish the foundation for providing higher quality healthcare to a broader number of people at a lower overall cost. Other members of the consortium include Advanced Radiology (Towson, MD), BellSouth Telecommunications (Atlanta, GA), Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc. (Charleston, WV), Connecticut Healthcare Research and Education (Wallingford, CT), General Electric (Schenectady, NY), Shared Medical Systems Corporation (Malvern, PA), Technology 2020 (Oak Ridge, TN), University of Florida (Gainesville, FL), and the University of Maryland at Baltimore Medical Center (Baltimore, MD).

For project information:

Jack Corley, (803) 760-3792
corley@scra.org

Active Project Participants

• Advanced Radiology (Towson, MD)
  [Original, Active Member]
  
• Bellsouth Telecommunications (Birmingham, AL)
  [Original, Active Member]
  
• Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc. (Charleston, WV)
  [Original, Active Member]
  
• Connecticut Healthcare Research and Education (Wallingford, CT)
  [Original, Active Member]
  
• GE Research (formerly General Electric Corporate R&D) (Niskayuna, NY)
  [Original, Active Member]
  
• Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, Inc. (Oak Ridge, TN)
  [New Member since original JV was formed]
  
• Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services (formerly Shared Medical Systems) (Malvern, PA)
  [Original, Active Member]
  
• Technology 2020 (Oak Ridge, TN)
  [Original, Active Member]
  
• University of Florida at Gainesville, Department of Anesthesiology (Gainesville, FL)
  [Original, Active Member]
  
• University of Maryland at Baltimore, Diagnostic & Radiology (Baltimore, MD)
  [Original, Active Member]
  

ATP Project Manager

Barbara Cuthill, (301) 975-3273
barbara.cuthill@nist.gov