DARPA - Health Information Infrastructure

DARPA Health Information Infrastructure Budget Code: MPT-07

This activity will develop an intelligent, agent-based clinical associate software system and demonstrate its application in Ambulatory Care and Combat Casualty and Trauma Care. The program vision is to greatly improve the tools that support decision-making by clinical users and patients-consumers. The objectives of this activity are to:

conduct visionary pilot projects of CLASS that demonstrate significant impact in health care; and
develop a health care-specific information infrastructure that promotes use and reuse of component-based architectures for health information systems.
Models of the health care domain are constructed using a scenario-based engineering process. Domain-specific software architecture (DSSA) tools are used to derive reference architecture and requirements and to generate instances of user-based evaluation systems (visionary pilots). Important features and attributes of the sub-domain pilots are generalized to produce an associate systems reference architecture for health care (health care specific tools). The key functional components of this intelligent systems architecture include: (1) The human-computer interaction manager; (2) The task and context manager; and (3) The information broker.

This architecture stresses multi-modal user interfaces, information integration from heterogeneous sources, multi-modal information acquisition, communication, and presentation, intelligent on-line support for medical personnel, logistical planning and resource allocation, and simulation-based systems for decision-makers in health care management. It provides a unique environment for developing tools and techniques for integrating and leveraging existing and emerging HPCC technologies. A key criterion for success is the transfer of the associate system and health care reference architectures into operational use in the Nation's industrial base.

Budget ($ M)

FY 95 Act 9.11

FY 96 Pres 10.24

FY 96 Est 6.24

FY 97 Rqst 7.51

Program Component Areas

FY 96 FY 97

HECC

LSN

HCS

HuCS

ETHR 6.24 7.51

Agency Ties

DARPA

NSF

DOE

NASA

NIH Partner

NSA

NIST

NOAA

EPA

ED

AHCPR

VA

Milestone Changes

FY 1995 Actual Milestones FY 1996 Estimated Milestones FY 1997 Agency Requested Milestones

Developed domain models for ambulatory and trauma-combat casualty care.

Demonstrated CLASS -- Composite Health Care System mediator.

Piloted CLASS components in two clinic at National Naval Medical center.

Developed CLASS reference architecture for ambulatory care.

Captured clinical data directly from physicians in two different clinics. Extend CLASS architecture to provide trauma guidelines directly to medics.

Integrate user-task models and knowledge-based decision support tools.

Demonstrate hands-free capture of patient data on battlefield.

Provide one-stop shopping for geographically dispersed human services clients.

Create reference architecture for generalized associate system. Demonstrate protocol based care in all battlefield and peacetime settings.

Facilitate transition of combat care associate to emergency services.

Initiate a new program in Learning Technologies that will combine human centered information systems research with research in education to provide the basis for the next generation of technologies for education.

Demonstrate performance gains of advanced software engineering collaborators.