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Medical
Middleware -
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The MedMid working
group is dormant for now. Please contact Steve
Olshansky,
MedMid working group flywheel, with questions or comments.
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MedMid, the Internet2
Medical Middleware
working group, exists
to further the development
of middleware for
healthcare education
and practice, and
related areas. The
working group was
formed by the Internet2
Health
Sciences Initiative
and Middleware
Initiative, and
in cooperation with
the Association
of American Medical
Colleges (AAMC).
This group will leverage
and extend the work
currently under way
in enabling enterprise
directories to support
authentication and
authorization services
in the higher education
community, with an
eye toward the particular
environment and requirements
unique to the medical
education sector.
Important new content-sharing
tools, such as the
Shibboleth
project within Internet2,
will allow unparalleled
secure access to medical
resources but will
require a widely adopted
and interoperable
directory-enabled
infrastructure.
NOTE WELL:
All Internet2 Activities
are governed by the
Internet2
Intellectual Property
Framework.
Solicitation
for Members
The Internet2 MedMid
Working Group is soliciting
the involvement of senior
IT and policy representatives
from prominent medical
colleges and universities,
toward the goal of advancing
this effort in a way
will accommodate the
interests of this community.
For further information,
please contact Steve
Olshansky, MedMid
Flywheel.
The
Role of Middleware
The Internet2 Middleware
Initiative is working
toward the deployment
of core middleware services
at Internet2 member
universities. Middleware,
in the context of high-performance
networking, is a layer
of software between
the network and the
applications. This software
provides services such
as identification, authentication,
authorization, directories,
and security. In today's
Internet, applications
usually have to provide
these services themselves,
which leads to competing
and incompatible standards.
By promoting standardization
and interoperability,
middleware will make
advanced network applications
much easier to use.
LDAP directories
are at the heart of
many of these essential
services; serving
as centralized repositories
for information related
to resources, and
users and systems
authorized to access
these resources. The
problem: there are
few if any established
patterns for building
general-purpose institutional
directories. Each
institution has frequently
had to start from
scratch, and no two
higher education directories
look exactly alike.
A number of recent
developments have
brought a sense of
urgency to developing
a common vocabulary
for identifying resources
and users, and to
facilitating inter-
and intra-institutional
access to the proliferation
of highly valuable
network-accessible
resources in a manner
ensuring security,
privacy, and data
integrity, and with
significant applications
in medical education.
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Documents
These documents are
works in progress.
For more information
on the status of these
documents, see the
Internet2
Document Guidelines.
For reference see
also the Internet2
Document Library.
Reference
Documents
- Proceedings:
Advanced Camp for Medicine "Identity
and Access Management for Medical Applications"
January
25-27, 2006 Houston, TX
- Leading Health
Care and Information
Technology Groups
Endorse Common Framework
for Health Information
Exchange to Support
Improvements in Health
and Healthcare
Thirteen major health
and information technology
organizations, in
an unprecedented joint
collaboration, endorsed
a "Common Framework"
to support improved
health information
exchange in the United
States while protecting
patient privacy. The
collaborating organizations
have identified the
vital design elements—of
standards, policies,
and methods—for
creating a new information
environment that would
allow health care
professionals, institutions,
and individual Americans
to exchange health
information in order
to improve patient
care. These recommendations
were developed in
response to the Request
for Information related
to a "National Health
Information Network"
issued by the U.S.
Office of the National
Coordinator for Health
Information Technology
(ONCHIT) within the
Department of Health
and Human Services
in November 2004.
(Press
Release)
Links
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