6th Annual Public Health Information Network Conference: A Scenario to Conceptually Illustrate the Utility of the Public Health Grid

Monday, August 25, 2008: 1:30 PM

Atlanta BCD

Zaruhi Mnatsakanyan, PhD , Johns Hopkins Univ. APL, Laurel, MD

Nedra Y. Garrett, MS , National Center for Public Health Informatics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

Joseph Lombardo, MS , Center for Excellence Public Health Informatics, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD

John F. Stinn, BA, MA , Public Health and Social Services, BearingPoint Consultants, Atlanta, GA

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Abstract: Building upon the success of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (CaBIG™), 1 the National Center for Public Health Informatics in collaboration with the Centers of Excellence is currently exploring the feasibility of using grid technology as a means of providing greater efficiencies in sharing informatics resources. Grid architecture is an enabling technology whereby web services can be made available to the informatics community for use in a secure interoperable environment. It is envisioned that, the Public Health Grid will include a common set of applications and tools for sharing, integrating and processing disparate information resources. While there are tremendous possibilities as it relates to the Public Health Grid, understanding the technological capacity in relation to real public health scenarios will be critical to prioritize the development and / or publication of services, and more importantly, gain the buy-in of the public health and partner community. This presentation will walk the audience through a public health scenario that will leverage the Public Health Grid by exposing a biosurveillance information fusion web service interacting with a knowledge gathering service, the Controlled Health Thesaurus (CHT) public health vocabulary, and a Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) service. We will show how additional information can be utilized to enhance public health awareness. A conceptual view of the technical implications and information flow will also be presented. Although these services have been developed, they are currently not available on the public health grid. The objective of the session is to present the distributed utility of the public health grid in a scenario that reflects the future vision for this technology. 1. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (CaBIG™) https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/overview?pid=primary.2006-07-07.4911641845&sid=about&status=True

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