Internet as a platform for realization of healthcare projects

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Internet as a platformfor realizationof
healthcare projects

• Václava Smitková

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Synopses

• Introduction
• Many faces of the Internet
• Healthcare projects on the Internet
• Examples
• Virtual Scientific Congress
• Virtual Benchmarking Project
• Virtual Reading Room
• Virtual Education
• Unimaginable possibilities

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Many Faces of the Internet

• Communication tool
• e-mail, news group, chat, videoconference, ...
• Information source
• WWW
• gate to real information resources
• Information infrastructure
• tele-projects
• e-commerce
• etc.

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Healthcare Projects on Internet

• Example no.1 Virtual Scientific Congress
• Internet World Congress on Biomedical Sciences
• Example no.2 Virtual Benchmarking Project
• OZISAL on WWW
• Example no.3 Virtual Reading Room
• CDROM server of Charles University
• Example no.4 Virtual Education
• SuperCourse of University of Pittsburgh

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Example no.1 Virtual Scientific Congress
Internet World Congress on Biomedical
Sciences (IWC) organized by Internet Association
for Biomedical Sciences (INABIS) via Internet
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Example no.1 Virtual Scientific Congress
History

• 1st IWC December 7-17, 1994, Mie University
  School of Medicine, Tsu, Japan http//www.medic.
  mie-u.ac.jp/proc.html
• 2nd IWC December 4-15, 1995, Mie University
  School of Medicine, Tsu, Japan http//www.medic.
  mie-u.ac.jp/cgi-bin/proccgi
• 3rd IWC December 9-20, 1996, Riken, Tsukuba,
  Japan http//www.3iwc.riken.go.jp/CONGRESS/index
  .html
• 4th IWC December 8-19, 1997, University of
  Occupational and Enviromental Health of Japan,
  Kitakyushu, Japan http//openglobal.med.uoeh-u.a
  c.jp/4iwc/index.html
• 5th IWC December 7-16, 1998, McMaster
  University, Canada http//www.mcmaster.ca/inabis
  98/

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Example no.1 Virtual Scientific Congress
Programme

• Opening Remarks
• Welcome Party
• Symposia
• Sessions - Posters
• Discussion
• Proceedings

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Example no.1 Virtual Scientific Congress
Technical Background

• information about Congress e-mail, WWW
• WWW server WWW
• registration e-mail
• abstract e-mail
• poster WWW, ftp
• lectures WWW
• posters WWW
• discussion WWW
• competition WWW
• proceedings WWW (on CDROM)

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Example no.1 Virtual Scientific Congress
Virtual versus Real Congress

• save money
• save time
• decrease organizational demands
• (almost-) no limitation for number of
  participants
• low personal interaction
• low discussion
• influence of different time zones

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Example no.2 Virtual Benchmarking Project
OZISAL on WWW organized by Charles University
Hospital in Pilsen (Czech Republic) via Internet
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Example no.2 Virtual Benchmarking Project
Data

• personal average salary of doctors, nurses
  and other groups of healthcare
  professionals, etc.
• economical costs (blood, services, measuring
  instruments, etc.), profit on assurance
  companies, profitability, etc.
• medical average per doctor or nurse
  number of beds, number of engaged
  beds, utilization of beds, etc.

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Example no.2 Virtual Benchmarking Project
Graphs

• graph type
• comparison
• time series
• data level
• hospital
• department

• time period
• current year
• previous year (since 1994)
• floating year
• quarter (since 1/95)
• maximum time period (1994-1998)

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Example no.2 Virtual Benchmarking Project
Security Aspects

• personal
• application recommendations agreement
• organizational
• data location
• relative indicies
• technical
• private codes for hospitals
• user account private password
• firewall
• shttp

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Example no.2 Virtual Benchmarking Project
Advantages

• graphical interface
• user-friendliness
• simple operating - only WWW browser
• simple upgrade and update of data and information
  system
• no need to distribute and to install program
• no need to distribute new data

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Example no.2 Virtual Benchmarking Project
Project Home-page
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Example no.2 Virtual Benchmarking Project
Project Menu
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Example no.2 Virtual Benchmarking Project
Graph 1
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Example no.2 Virtual Benchmarking Project
Graph 2
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Example no.2 Virtual Benchmarking Project
Parameters
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Example no.2 Virtual Benchmarking Project
Help
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Example no.3 Virtual Reading Room
Multimedia Medical Library organized by Charles
University Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen (Czech
Republic) via Internet
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Virtual Bookshelves
Example no.3 Virtual Reading Room

• Electronic information sources on CDROM
• for scientific purposes
• databases
• monographies
• proceedings
• for educational purposes
• text-books
• training software
• dictionaries
• encyclopaedias

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Technical Background
Example no.3 Virtual Reading Room

• Electronic library hardware software
  network
• hardware- CDROM servers
• software- UltraNet (CDROM titles in computer
  network)- Citrix MetaFrame (terminal connection
  to server)
• network- ATM metropolitan networks- TEN34-CZ
  (Internet for academical institutions in the
  Czech Republic)

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Example no.3 Virtual Reading Room
User Access

• Clients to electronic library
• UltraNet Client- menu of CD titles
• ICA Client ( Citrix MetaFrame Client)-
  collection of shortcuts to CD titles
• WWW ( Java applet)- direct access to the
  UltraNet menu of CD titles through Web browser
  (MSIE or Netscape v.4.0)

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User Screen
Example no.3 Virtual Reading Room
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Example no.3 Virtual Reading Room
User Screen 2
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Example no.4 Virtual Education
SuperCourse Epidemiology, the Internet and
Global Health organized by University of
Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health via
Internet
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Example no.4 Virtual Education
Technical Background

• basic information e-conferences, WWW
• lecture - development MS PowerPoint
• lecture - sending e-mail
• lecture - exhibition WWW
• lecture - basic review WWW, e-mail
• lecture - corrections MS PowerPointe-mailWWW
• lecture - final version WWW
• lecture - students WWW
• dissemination to another servers WWW
• translation to another languages MS
  PowerPoint e-mailWWW

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Unimaginable Possibilities

• Remote Conference System for Image Diagnosis on
  the World-Wide Web
• Design and Implementation of WWW-based Tools for
  Image Management in Computer Tomography, Magnetic
  Resonance Imaging and Ultrasonography
• Atlas of Blood Disease on the Internet
• Using the World-Wide Web to Train and Certify
  Physicians in the Safe Use of Fluoroscopy
• Using the Technology of the World-Wide Web to
  Manage Clinical Information