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Nevada
Telehealth Technology Initiative
University of Nevada Las Vegas
National
Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment
(NSCEE)
Joseph Lombardo
4505 South Maryland Parkway
Las Vegas, NV 89154-4028
Ph: 702-895-4153
Fax: 702-895-4156 http://www.nscee.edu/Research/nv_telehealth.html
Email: lombardo@nscee.edu
Network
Partners: University of Nevada School of Medicine,
University Medical Center, Nevada Rural Hospital Project,
Nevada Cancer Institute, State Office of Rural Health,
U.S. Department of Energy, Heidelberg (Germany) Pulmonary
Disease Clinic, British Columbia Cancer Agency, and
Sierra Pacific Communications.
Project
Purpose: Evaluate the technical requirements for
public health applications and to establish the infrastructure
to effectively deliver health and medical care through
a technology-based infrastructure. Solve the technical
challenges in deploying and developing networking
technologies to empower health and medical care delivery.
This project focuses and helps support the following
three application areas: 1) remote diagnosis and consultation,
2) continuing medical education, and 3) medical informatics.
Outcomes
Expected: 1) A review of current efforts to improve
the capabilities of network technology and an evaluation
of them based upon the needs of the health care sector.
2) Improved network technologies, which have traditionally
provided only best-effort service, will provide some
type of service guarantees for different types of
traffic (i.e., streaming video that often requires
a significant amount of bandwidth). 3) A plan to migrate
from the dominant, relatively high-cost, low-volume
UNIX environment to the lower-cost, higher-volume
Windows XP/NT/2000/98 environment.
Service
Area: The service area includes 17 counties in
Nevada and 2 international spoke sites located in
Heidelberg, Germany and Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada.
Services
Provided: Digital library services, remote
education and professional development, medical informatics,
web-based health information, evaluation of technical
requirements for health care applications, and lung
fluorescence endoscopy databank.
Equipment:
SGI Onyx 3800, StorageTek PowderHorn Mass Storage
Unit, HP/Intel Itanium 2-based Cluster, PCs, visualization
workstations, Internet2 networking equipment, HF wireless
laptop, wireless PDAs, and the Access Grid (AG).
Transmission:
Gigabit Ethernet, multiple T1 lines, Internet2
(primarily OC-192c), modem access, high frequency
(HF) wireless, store and forward, AG and IPv6. |
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