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Academic Medical centers are the backbone of the American biomedical research enterprise. These 120-plus institutions are comprised of health profession schools, their associated teaching and research hospitals, clinics and laboratories. Information related to patient care, research, education, and administration is the life blood of these complex centers; increasingly this information is in electronic form: databases of bibliographic and factual information, molecular databases, patient records, laboratory and clinical data. Currently, these electronic information sources (databases) are largely disconnected and isolated from one another, and communications among the various computerized systems in academic medical centers is primitive or non-existent. The focus of the IAIMS program, initiated in 1984, is the development of the technical and organizational infrastructure necessary to link and retrieve conceptually related information from many disparate sources within the medical center, and to link medical centers. The administrative, clinical, educational, and research databases should be able to communicate, and to appear as one database to the user. The goal of the program is the development, testing, and implementation of generalizable systems of information flow management within university health science centers or major teaching hospitals. The expected outcomes of this program are greater research productivity, improved access to patient data for technology assessment and health outcomes research, and more efficient patient care leading to increased efficiency in the use of health care resources. The work is expected eventually to benefit all health delivery organization, including community hospitals and outpatient services.
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Budget ($ M)
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FY 95 Act
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3.39
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FY 96 Pres
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3.39
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FY 96 Est
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3.40
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FY 97 Rqst
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3.40
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Program Component Areas
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FY 96
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FY 97
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HECC
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LSN
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2.00
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2.00
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HCS
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0.50
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0.50
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HuCS
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0.90
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0.90
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ETHR
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Agency Ties
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DARPA
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NSF
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DOE
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NASA
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NIH
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NSA
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NIST
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NOAA
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EPA
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ED
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AHCPR
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VA
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Six IAIMS projects were supported by grant mechanisms, including three implementation continuation awards and three planning awards.
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In addition to continuation of active awards, approximately four new planning awards and two new implementation awards will be made; emphasis on sharing of information via the NREN will be a central focus of the program.
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Continued progress toward integration of academic information management by American medical centers.
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