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National Multi-Protocol Ensemble for Self-scaling Systems for Health (NMESH) Background Because healthcare information systems are
developed to meet local institutional needs, an integrated view of regional health
events has proven to be difficult to realize and likewise the realization a
longitudinal view of the patient's record across institutions has proven
equally intractable. The issues of organizational scalability and autonomy
and privacy have proven at least as challenging as the technical ones.
Preparedness for naturally occurring disaster or terrorism requires network
aware, robust systems that provide access to medical record information for
clinical care and for public health activity. The National Multi-Protocol
Ensemble for Self-scaling Systems for Health (NMESH) seeks to address these
problems of scalability and preparedness at multiple levels by leveraging off
of prior work on multi-institutional "on-the-fly" data integration,
regional patient-controlled medical records, self-describing peer-to-peer
networks, cryptographic health identification systems, and a GIS-based biosurveillance toolset. Wireless handsets will be
introduced as strong authenticators and “smart card” like storage devices. nmesh will be deployed,
demonstrated and independently evaluated across pediatric and adult
populations over multiple unrelated and competing Study Aim The Evaluation Documents |
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