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Sunday, August 24, 2008
South/West Halls
The Cancer Biomendical Informatics Grid™ (caBIG™), an open-source, cancer informatics community initiative, is engaged in the process of implementing technology, infrastructure and policies that will connect the people, institutions, and data in the cancer community. These connections are expected to accelerate the discovery of answers to complex questions of cancer biology and medicine and, thereby, improve patient outcomes.
To launch such an initiative across almost 100 institutions, both public and private, requires coordination, and leveraging experts with a variety of backgrounds: from scientists to technologists to lawyers to healthcare managers. The poster will highlight the variety of tools, products, and training programs that the NCI-funded program has developed to facilitate the adoption of caBIG™. Part of this ambitious program has been the government funding of key deployment leads at the cancer centers to facilitate this deployment. This poster will identify the necessary steps to plan and then implement the caBIG™ technologies, practices, and infrastructure to access and share data. It will also address the need for community experts and resources to aid with the deployment and will address the unique caBIG™ Enterprise Service Network, built from the cancer informatics community, that support the deployment at cancer centers across the United States. Lessons learned in this program of particular relevance to the development of the Public Health Information Network will be highlighted.
To launch such an initiative across almost 100 institutions, both public and private, requires coordination, and leveraging experts with a variety of backgrounds: from scientists to technologists to lawyers to healthcare managers. The poster will highlight the variety of tools, products, and training programs that the NCI-funded program has developed to facilitate the adoption of caBIG™. Part of this ambitious program has been the government funding of key deployment leads at the cancer centers to facilitate this deployment. This poster will identify the necessary steps to plan and then implement the caBIG™ technologies, practices, and infrastructure to access and share data. It will also address the need for community experts and resources to aid with the deployment and will address the unique caBIG™ Enterprise Service Network, built from the cancer informatics community, that support the deployment at cancer centers across the United States. Lessons learned in this program of particular relevance to the development of the Public Health Information Network will be highlighted.