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Shepherd University Research Corporation (SURC)

Shepherd University Research Corporation (SURC)

Shepherd University

Shepherdstown, WV 25443

U.S.A

Email: blidgerding@shepherd.edu

Phone: 304-876-5231

Specialized Medical IT ‘Open Source’ Solutions

The following are brief descriptions of some of the many collaborative health IT projects, activities, and organizations focused on selected specialty areas such as Emergency Management, Patient Safety, and Genomics. The primary focus of these collaborative projects is on open solutions.

Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project (HCUP) - The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) is a family of health care databases and related software tools and products developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership and sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). HCUP databases bring together the data collection efforts of State data organizations, hospital associations, private data organizations, and the Federal government to create a national information resource that enables research on a broad range of health policy issues. See http://www.ahrq.gov/data/hcup/

Human Genome Nomenclature (HUGN) Database Project - HUGN is a non-profit making body which is jointly funded by the UK Medical Research Council, the US NHGRI grant P41 HG003345 and the Wellcome Trust (UK). They operate under the auspices of HUGO, with key policy advice from an International Advisory Committee (IAC). See http://www.genenames.org/

myPACS– is a free international service that links together thousands of radiologists from 1500 institutions in 75 countries who use MyPACS to create their cases online. By 2005 the service has logged it’s over 10,000 teaching file cases that have over 40,000 images. MyPACS has become the largest collaborative repository of radiology cases on the Internet since it was launched in 1999. See www.mypacs.net

Epi Info and Epi-X – With Epi Info™ , epidemiologists and other public health and medical professionals can rapidly develop a questionnaire or form, customize the data entry process, and enter and analyze data. Epidemiologic statistics, tables, graphs, and maps are produced with simple commands such as READ, FREQ, LIST, TABLES, GRAPH, and MAP. Epi Map displays geographic maps with data from Epi Info™. Also check out Epi-X, a web-based communications solution for public health professionals. Using Epi-X, CDC officials, state and local health departments, poison control centers, and other public health professionals can access and share preliminary health surveillance information - quickly and securely. See http://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/ and http://www.cdc.gov/epix/

Other selected examples of collaborative Specialized Medical IT ‘open source’ projects and activities include:

· State EMS Systems - http://www.nedarc.org/nedarc/emsDataSystems/index.html

· BLAST - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/

· Genomic Messaging System (GMS) -

· http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/projects/software/imr/gms.html

· Vaccine Management System - http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/vacman/default.htm

· State Telehealth Projects - http://www.hlthtech.com/states/statesindex.html

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