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ATP Public Meeting on Information Infrastructure for Healthcare

About the Advanced Technology Program

The NIST Advanced Technology Program (ATP) provides competitive, cost-shared awards for industry to develop high-risk, enabling technologies with broad-based economic benefit. The ATP seeks to help industry fill the gap between basic research and product development, and to invest in technology that wouldn't be developed in a competitive time-frame without government cost-sharing. Along with general competitions which are open to proposals from all technical areas, the ATP is also funding a series of "focused programs" with specific business and technical goals.

Background

Since 1994, the ATP has supported a focused program in Information Infrastructure for Healthcare (IIH) that addresses the innovation and reengineering of information technology related to the medical facility and delivery system. Evolutionary changes and advances in medical informatics will move today's segmented applications of information systems toward a seamless information infrastructure. Overcoming the high technical risks in systems engineering will ensure the reliability, availability, maintainability, data integrity, and high level of confidence needed to make data available for every patient 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The technical goals of the ATP IIH focused program are to help the U.S. healthcare industry develop new technologies for: reliable storage and retrieval of complex medical information for varied applications; real-time, data-driven medical decisions; real-time data entry by mobile medical personnel; real-time global transport of complex medical records with accuracy, speed, and security; and computer-based medical training, diagnostic, and reference tools. These technologies are being developed at each of three consecutive levels:
  • technologies to form the foundation of a private-sector-driven, nationwide information system, including tools for enterprise integration, domain identification, and business process modeling;
  • technologies to make such a system efficient and user friendly, including computerized knowledge-based systems, digital libraries, and natural language processing; and
  • applications that directly meet healthcare users' needs, such as clinical decision support systems and consumer health information and education systems.

Since the processing of information captures a significant percentage of the dollars spent on healthcare, achievement of the technical goals of this ATP focused program will foster domestic capability to ultimately develop products that will reduce healthcare costs, improve the quality of healthcare, and capture global market share of new and improved products and services.

Currently, the ATP IIH focused program has funded 26 industry-proposed and -executed projects with estimated ATP funds of $135 million and $142 million of industry-matching funds committed over five years.

Public Meeting Objectives

This meeting will bring together all current ATP project participants in the Information Infrastructure for Healthcare Focused Program, as well as other interested parties, to present overviews of the non-proprietary aspects of their research and development activities.

The goals of the meeting are:

  • to inform the medical informatics community about progress at this early stage of the focused program;
  • to promote cross-fertilization of concepts and efforts;
  • to promote strategic partnering across companies and other organizations in the medical informatics community;
  • to accelerate commercialization of promising technologies emerging from this research;
  • to promote networking between ATP awardees and the user community; and
  • to lay the groundwork for the planned third solicitation in this initiative.

Agenda

In addition to formal presentations, the agenda will include exhibits of early prototypes, presentations of related NIST intramural research, and open discussions. There will be ample opportunities for networking during the meeting. Registration will begin at 8:00 a.m. and the meeting will adjourn by 5:00 p.m. on both days.

Location

The National Institute of Standards and Technology, Administration Building (101), Green Auditorium, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Gaithersburg is approximately 25 miles northwest of Washington, D.C.

Registration

The registration fee is $100 per person and includes coffee breaks, lunches, and meeting materials. For your name to appear on the preliminary participants' list, registration must be received no later than Tuesday, September 20, 1996. Requests for refund or cancellation must also be received, in writing, by September 20.

Accommodations

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Gaithersburg Hilton, (301) 977-8900. The special rate is $92, single or double, plus 12% tax. To register for a room, please complete the enclosed hotel reservation card and send it directly to the hotel no later than Tuesday, September 20, 1996. After that date, the rooms will be released for general sale at the prevailing rates of the hotel.

Transportation

BWI Super Shuttle, (301) 369-0009, offers commercial van service from Baltimore-Washington International Airport to the Gaithersburg area. Crystal Airport Shuttle, 1-800-872-2797, is available from Dulles International and Washington National Airports to Gaithersburg. Call for reservations.

Transportation will be provided between the HIlton and NIST each day. Attendees are encouraged to use this service as parking at NIST is limited.

Driving Instructions

To reach NIST:
Northbound I-270: take Exit 10, Rt. 117 West, Clopper Road. At the first light on Clopper Road, turn left onto the NIST grounds.
Southbound I-270: take Exit 11B, Rt. 124 West, Quince Orchard Road. At the second light turn left onto Clopper Road. At the next light, turn right onto the NIST grounds.

To reach the Administration Building, turn left after passing the guard office. Signs will direct you to visitor parking.

Registration Information

  • Tammie Grice
    NIST
    Gaithersburg, Md. 20899-0001
    Telephone: (301) 975-3883
    Fax: (301) 948-2067
    e-mail: tammie.grice@nist.gov

Technical Information

  • Bettijoyce B. Lide
    NIST
    Bldg. 101, Rm. A415
    Gaithersburg, Md. 20899-0001
    Telephone: (301) 975-2218
    Fax: (301) 926-9524
    e-mail: bettijoyce.lide@nist.gov

ATP General Information

  • For general information or to add your name to the
    ATP mailing list, contact the ATP Office:
    Telephone: (800) ATP-FUND or (800) 287-3863
    Fax: (301) 926-9524
    e-mail: atp@micf.nist.gov

Date created: August 3, 1996
Last updated: April 29, 2003

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