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National Institutes of Health | National Library of Medicine |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEĀ | Robert Mehnert Kathy Cravedi |
11/24/03 | (301) 496-6308 publicinfo@nlm.nih.gov |
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(Bethesda, Md.)--The National Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will present a program in partnership with Internet2, a consortium of universities operating advanced research networks in the United States. The venue is the 89th Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting in Chicago's McCormick Place, from November 30 through December 5, 2003. The program and demonstration will take place twice daily at 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. from December 1 through 4.
The program (1) underscores the need for high performance networking in health care, (2) provides an overview of current high performance networks and their use in health care, and (3) highlights some of the many National Library of Medicine (NLM) research and development projects in health care employing these networks.
"High-speed networks offer some very important benefits for health care," says Dr. Michael Ackerman, Director of the NLM Office of High Performance Computing and Communications. "Patients often can receive more accurate diagnoses in a more convenient and timely manner because the high-speed Internet allows patient data to be quickly and confidentially shared with the proper consulting specialists located anywhere in the world."
Advanced network health care applications will be demonstrated under an arrangement between Chicago's Metropolitan Research and Education Network and McCormick Place that makes the convention center one of the few in the country with high-speed connectivity. The following projects will be demonstrated, three of which were funded by NLM:
Stanford University and University of Wisconsin scientists are developing surgical simulators enabling students to "operate" on virtual 3D patients in a way that allows them to "feel" the virtual patient as though it were a real one. Students at distant sites can also be guided through surgical procedures by a master surgeon, each sharing the surgeon's view of the patient and feeling the surgeon's movements.
For more information about the National Library of Medicine's high-speed Internet projects, visit: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/ngiinit.html.
Located in Bethesda, Maryland, the National Library of Medicine, the world's largest library of the health sciences, is a component of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health & Human Services.
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Last updated: 19 March 2004
First published: 24 November 2003
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