Transcript President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC)

President’s Information Technology
Advisory Committee (PITAC)
Briefing to the
Advisory Committee to the Director,
National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda, MD
December 6, 2001
Larry Smarr
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD
Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
Coordination of Federal
IT R&D Programs
WHITE
HOUSE
President’s Information
Technology Advisory Committee
(PITAC)
National Science
and Technology Council
National Coordination Office (NCO)
for Information Technology
Research and Development
High End
Computing
Coordinating
Group
(HEC)
Large Scale
Networking
Coordinating
Group
(LSN)
U.S. Congress
Executive Office of the President
Office of Science and Technology Policy
Interagency Working
Group on Information
Technology R&D
High
Confidence
Software and
Systems
Coordinating
Group
(HCSS)
Human
Computer
Interaction &
Information
Management
Coordinating
Group
(HCI & IM)
IT R&D
Authorization and Appropriations
Legislation
Participating Agencies: AHRQ,
DARPA, DOE, EPA, NASA, NIH, NIST,
NOAA, NSA, NSF, ODUSD (S&T)
Software
Design and
Productivity
Coordinating
Group
(SDP)
Social, Economic
and Workforce
Implications of IT
and IT Workforce
Development
Coordinating
Group
(SEW)
Federal
Information
Services
and
Applications
Council
(FISAC)
President’s Information Technology
Advisory Committee (PITAC)
• Top IT Experts From Academia and Industry.
• 22 Members Who Advise the Administration
– How to Accelerate the Development and Adoption of
Information Technologies
• First Report
– Information Technology Research: Investing in Our
Future (1999)
– Recommended Increasing Strategic Investments From:
– $1.46 Billion in FY 2000
– To $2.83 Billion in FY 2004
– Four Priority Areas for Long-term R&D:
– Software
– Scalable Information Infrastructure
– High-end Computing
– Socioeconomic Impact
Current
MembershipList
PITAC Membership
Raj Reddy (CMU) & Irving Wladawsky-Berger
(IBM), Chairs
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Eric A. Benhamou, Ph.D. / 3Com Corporation
Vinton Cerf, Ph.D. / WorldCom
Ching-chih Chen, Ph.D. / Simmons College
David M. Cooper, Ph.D. / Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Steven D. Dorfman (retired) / Hughes Electronics Corporation
Robert Ewald / Learn 2 Corporation
Sherrilynne S. Fuller, Ph.D. / University of Washington School of Medicine
Hector Garcia-Molina, Ph.D. / Stanford University
Susan L. Graham, Ph.D. / University of California - Berkeley
James N. Gray, Ph.D. / Microsoft Research
W. Daniel Hillis, Ph.D. / Applied Minds, Inc.
Robert E. Kahn, Ph.D. / Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI)
Ken Kennedy, Ph.D. / Rice University
John P. Miller, Ph.D. / Montana State University
David C. Nagel, Ph.D. / Palm, Inc.
Edward H. Shortliffe, M.D., Ph.D. / Columbia University
Larry Smarr, Ph.D. / University of California - San Diego
Joe F. Thompson, Ph.D. / Mississippi State University
Leslie Vadasz / Intel Corporation
Steven J. Wallach / Chiaro Networks
PITAC Follow-on Reports
• In 2000, three panel reports were released:
– Resolving the Digital Divide: Information, Access and
Opportunity
– Transforming Access to Government through Information
Technology
– Developing Open Source Software to Advance High End
Computing
• In 2001, three panel reports were released:
– Transforming Health Care Through Information
Technology
– Using Information Technology To Transform the Way We
Learn
– Digital Libraries: Universal Access to Human Knowledge
The Two Reports
www.itrd.gov/ac
February 1999
February 2001
PITAC Panel on Transforming Health Care
Final Report February 2001
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Co-Chairs
– Sherrilynne Fuller, Ph.D. / University of Washington School of Medicine
– Edward Shortliffe, M.D., Ph.D. / Columbia University
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Panel PITAC Members
– Robert E. Kahn, Ph.D. Corp. for National Research Initiatives
– John P. Miller, Ph.D. Montana State University
– Larry Smarr, Ph.D. University of California - San Diego
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Bruce Davie, Ph.D. Cisco Systems
Don E. Detmer, M.D. University of Virginia
John Glaser, Ph.D. Partners HealthCare System
Eric Horvitz, M.D., Ph.D. Microsoft Research
Takeo Kanade, Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University
Sid Karin, Ph.D. San Diego Supercomputer Center
Russell J. Ricci, M.D. IBM Corporation
Bonnie Webber, Ph.D. University of Edinburgh
PITAC Healthcare Panel Had Input From:
• Office of the Secretary of HHS
• Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and
Evaluation (DHHS)
• National Institutes of Health
• National Cancer Institute
• National Library of Medicine
• National Center for Research Resources
• National Center for Health Statistics
• National Science Foundation
• Centers for Disease Control
• Food and Drug Administration
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Examples of IT Research Challenges Relevant to
Biomedical and Health Care Applications
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Interactive Large-Scale Biological Simulations
Data-Driven Modeling of Biological Processes
Data Mining in Large Clinical and Biological Databases
Multimodal Information Management
Biomedically Motivated User-interface Hardware and Software
Advanced Networking Services, Including QoS and Wireless
High End Systems to Support Biomedical Research,
Simulations, and Modeling
Privacy, Security, and Authentication
Language Understanding / Text Processing
Clinical Records and Their Integration
Access to Information Systems for People With Disabilities
Automated Policy Inference
Research on the Implications of IT on the Health Care System
PITAC Healthcare Panel Findings
• The U.S. lacks a broadly disseminated and accepted
national vision for information technology in health
care.
• Critical, long-term research, technology, and policy
issues need to be addressed if we are to realize the
potential of information technology to improve the
practice of health care.
• A critical and enabling investment in biomedical
computing infrastructure and enabling technologies
has not yet occurred
• Achieving the potential of information technology to
improve health care will be constrained until we
develop a larger cadre of researchers and
practitioners who operate at the nexus of health and
computing/communications.
PITAC Healthcare Panel Findings
• The biomedical community, including the Federal
research agencies, has tended to rely on information
technology innovations that are produced by
investments in other parts of Government.
– This adversely affects the pace at which biomedicine
benefits from IT research
– Solutions to IT research issues may never reflect the
needs of biomedicine without involvement of the
biomedical community
• The introduction of integrated decision-support
systems that can proactively foster best practices
requires enhanced information-technology methods
and tools.
PITAC Healthcare Panel Findings
• Advances in IT are critical in order for DHHS to
accomplish its mission to improve the quality of U.S.
health care
• The role and management of information technology
in DHHS has several limitations, which must be
addressed if the health care community is to benefit
from the promise of the information age.
PITAC Healthcare Panel
Recommendations
• R1. Establish pilot projects and Enabling Technology
Centers to extend practical uses of information
technology to health care systems and biomedical
research.
• R2. NIH, in close collaboration with NSF, DARPA, and
DOE, should design and deploy a scalable national
computing and information infrastructure to support
the biomedical research community.
• R3. Congress should enhance existing privacy rules
by enacting legislation that assures sound practices
for managing personally identifiable health
information of any kind.
PITAC Healthcare Panel
Recommendations
• R4. Establish programs to increase the pool of
biomedical research and health care professionals
with training at the intersection of health and
information technology.
– The Panel applauds the NIH’s Biomedical Information
Science and Technology Initiative (BISTI)
• R5. DHHS should outline its vision for using
information technology to improve health care in this
country and subsequently devote the necessary
resources to do the basic information technology
research critical to accomplishing these goals.
• R6. DHHS should appoint a senior information
technology leader to provide strategic leadership
across DHHS and focus on the importance of
information technology in addressing pressing
problems in health care.
NIH is Funding a National-Scale Grid
Federating Multi-Scale Neuro-Imaging Data
Wireless “Pad”
Web Interface
Biomedical Informatics
Research Network
(BIRN)
NIH Plans to Expand
to Other Organs
and Many Laboratories
Part of the UCSD CRBS
National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure
Center for Research on Biological Structure