The Internet2 Health Sciences Initiative
The Internet2 Health Sciences initiative includes any interested member of Internet2 in clinical practice, medical and related biological research, education and health awareness in the public. To this end, the following areas are emphasized:
- Facilitate and coordinate the creation and enhancement of health
applications whose development and deployment have been
hampered or prevented by the traditional Internet technology.
- Facilitate and coordinate the development of general application
tools to take advantage of Internet2 advanced network services.
These tools are most likely to arise in the process of developing
specific applications across a range of application areas, but
their ultimate value will be to seed the long-term distributed
development of applications to support healthcare and the life
sciences.
- Under the auspices of Internet2 Applications, collaborate with
other professional associations in the health sciences and Internet
community to develop guidelines for safe and effective use of the
Internet.
- Leverage and influence Internet2 resources to apply solutions
to the medical domain.
- Facilitate lateral communication within the Internet2 organization
to the various initiatives, working
groups, partnerships, engineering
activities, middleware
activities, and Backbone
Network Infrastructure.
- Inform the Health Science Community of these developments through collaborative application demonstrations at the Regional, National, and International level.
For more information about the Health Sciences initiative, contact Mike McGill at mmcgill@internet2.edu, or (614) 844-4200.
Michael McGill
Michael J. McGill, Ph.D. is the Director of Health Sciences for Internet2. The Health Sciences Initiative explores the potential and implications of advanced networking in clinical practice, medical and related biological research, education, and medical awareness.
Mike has over thirty years of hands-on experience in Information Technology and over twelve years in healthcare technology. He has been responsible for system wide operations, development and vision for information systems including the development of clinical repositories, the implementation of clinical and administrative systems, and support architectures that allow secure and reliable access. Mike was the Corporate Vice President and Chief Information Officer of the Henry Ford Health System, an integrated delivery system. Prior to that he was the Chief Information Officer of the University of Michigan Health System. At the University of Michigan, McGill also headed its telecommunication networks and phone service. He was Vice president of OCLC (Online Computer Library Center), Inc. At Syracuse University, Mike held the positions of Associate Professor, Assistant Dean for Research and the Ph.D. Program, School of Information Studies and Associate Professor of the School of Computer and Information Science. He was Program Director for Information Science for the National Science Foundation and a Senior Computer and Information Science Advisor, Office of Toxic Substances, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
He holds a BA degree from Michigan State University and an MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Syracuse University. Mike is a Member of the American Medical Informatics Association and the Health Information Management Systems Society. He has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his "pioneering research and development in information systems." He is also the author of numerous articles and co-author of Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval published by McGraw-Hill.
