| The Collaborative Medical Informatics Laboratory (CMIL) was established as a joint intiative bringing together faculty of the engineering and science programs of WVU with faculty and staff of WVU Hospital (primarily the Health Sciences Center). CMIL consisted of several distinctive laboratories, all established through an HP equipment grant followed by supplementary grants extending the original program. The facilities were established to create a research-oriented medical informatics system generally accessible by students, faculty, and researchers both within the Health Science Center and in other academic units of the university (particularly the ECE and CS Departments).
The facilities included a significant computer/data storage system located within and managed by the information technologies center of the Health Science Center. This provided a mechanism to minimize effects of firewalls associated with information technologies used for research within the Health Sciences Center. On research emphasis was on the development of home health care innovations allowing patients to return to their homes (often in isolated areas) rather than requiring extended stays in hospitals. The overall proposal was developed jointly by officials of WVU and WVU Hospital, with the technical aspects of the proposal managed by Prof. Tewksbury.
The original proposal along with a supplemental proposal to deploy additional home health care laboratories (all awarded) provide details regarding the various objectives of the overall program and the collaborators contributing to the proposals and the research.
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| Figure 1 illustrates the overall laboratory facilities obtained through the Hewlett-Packard grant, including the additional home health care laboratories obtained through the supplementary proposal.
Figure 1: Overall Laboratory Infrastructure of CMIL
Figure 2 illustrates the integration of the CMIL facilities with medical imaging research laboratories and resources obtained through another grant (S. Tewksbury, PI). That other grant provided a Silicon Graphics computer and major software tools supporting research in medical imaging research. The medical imaging laboratory resources had been obtained prior to the CMIL facilities but provided a natural integration of the two initiatives.
Figure 2: Integration of CMIL and the Laboratory for Adv. Information & Computation Systems
EQUIPMENT
Equipment obtained through the first CMIL proposal is detailed on a separate web page. The tables below summarize the equipment and its allocation.
| HP K450 Enterprise Server |
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Base Configuration: K450, 160 MHz PA-RISC 8000, 2MB cache, 128 MB RAM, maximum of 13 slots. With
- CD ROM (SCSI-2)
- 4 additional HP-PB slots
- 3000 VA UPS system
- Three 4GB half height HD (SCSI-2)
- Two 100Base T LAN adaptor
- HSC ATM adaptor
- HP-UX 10.20 Operating System
- HP C++ Softbench 5.0
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| Concurrent Eng Research Center Home Health Care Laboratory |
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Laboratory includes patient monitoring system with supporting network and computer components.
- HP Patient Data Server
- HP CareNet system (communications controller)
- Two HP Vectra VA PCs
- Miscellaneous supplies, cables, sensors
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| WVU Hospital Health Care Center Home Health Care Laboratory |
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The Health Care Center's Laboratory deployed patient monitoring equipment along with supporting communications and computing components.
- HP PalmVue Health Care System
- PageWriter 200I Cardiograph with storage and transmission package.
- HP Data communications package for Pagewriter
- HP CG manager software for PageWriter
- HP Vectra VA PC
- HP LaserJet 5
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| Home Health Care Educational Laboratories |
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A total of three student laboratories were established. one in the Health Sciences Center, one in the Dept. of Statistics and Computer Science, and one in the Dept. of Electrical and computer Engineering.
Each laboratory included 8 HP Vectra PCs with Ethernet connectivity and 17 inch monitors and a LaserJet 5M printer.
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PARTICIPANTS
Participants in the CMIL initiative are as follows.
Administrative Managers
- Frank J. Calzonetti: Associate Dean, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences.
- K. Joseph Cleetus: Associate Director, Concurrent Engineering Research .
- Allen C. Cogley: Dean, College of Engineering and Mineral Resources.
- Floyd K. Russell, Jr.: Director, Academic Technologies, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center.
- Edna Bruehl, Vice President of Information Systems, West Virginia University Hospitals.
Principal Investigator
- Stuart K. Tewksbury: Director, Laboratory for Advanced Information and Computation Systems, and Dept.of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Co-Principal Investigators
- Srini Kankanahalli: Assoc. Director, Concurrent Engineering Research Center and Dept. of Statistics and Computer Sciences
Ernie Throckmorton: Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center.
George Trapp: Dept. of Statistics and Computer Science.
Participating Faculty Members
- Prof. Hany Ammar: Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
- Prof. James E Brick, Medical Director, MDTV, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences.
- Edna Bruehl, Vice President of Information Systems, West Virginia University Hospitals.
- Prof. John R. Callahan: Dept. of Statistics and Computer Sciences.
- Prof. K.Joseph Cleetus: Concurrent Engineering Research Center and Dept of Statistics and Computer Science.
- Prof. Alan Ducatman: Director, Occupational Medicine, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center.
- Prof. Kevin Halbritter: Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center.
- Prof. Lawrence Hornak: Interim Chair, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
- Prof. V. Jugannathan: Concurrent Engineering Research Center and Dept of Statistics and Computer Science.
- Prof. Sirini Kankanahalli: Concurrent Engineering Research Center and Dept. of Statistics and Computer Sciences.
- Prof. James Mooney: Interim Chair, Dept. of Statistics and Computer Sciences.
- Prof. Ramana Reddy: Director, Concurrent Engineering Research Center.
- Prof. S. Reddy: Concurrent Engineering Research Center and Dept of Statistics and Computer Science.
- Floyd K. Russell, Jr.: Director, Academic Technologies, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center.
- Prof. Stuart Tewksbury: Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
- Ernie Throckmorton: Director of Programming, Information Systems, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center.
- Prof. George Trapp: Dept. of Statistics and Computer Science.
- Prof. John C. Weiser: Medical Physicist, Dept. of Radiology, Robert C. Byrd Health Science.
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