A consortium consisting of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and others are working together on a project aimed at developing technologies for use in medical image archiving and networking.
The pilot project will create a technological infrastructure for real-time collaboration on patient diagnosis and care among specialists at diverse locations. It will also promote regional collaborative research and health monitoring, according to a release.
The multistate consortium, called Hospitals, Universities, Businesses, and Schools (HUBS), has received a $7 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop and demonstrate a range of new Internet technologies. Besides PSC, UPMC, JHU, and HUP, other participants in the project include Telcordia Technologies and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
Overall project management is being provided by systems integrator Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) of Valley Forge, PA. As part of the project, UPMC and JHU will focus on creating network software to facilitate archival and retrieval of medical images, according to the release. In another effort, PSC will collaborate with UPMC in an effort to integrate the four participating hospitals for a pathology image data collection and enable database searching for automated diagnosis of tissue samples.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
April 27, 2000
