Use of Networks for Medical Informatics Research and Training Lawrence Fagan, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Director, Medical Computer Science Research Group Department of Medicine~ Stanford School of Medicine Since 1973, we have been developing the SUMEX Research Resource at Stanford. SUMEX comprises a national community of groups researching artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine. In addition, Standard-based AI in medicine projects and our medical computing training program take advantage of the evolving computing environment at Stanford. Part of our task has been to implement an extensive network, and the lessons from our experience are generally applicable to any project that requires linking multiple centers that have different communication and computation needs. There are two generally applicable lessons which we've learned: 1. Research and applications networks must continually expand as new tasks are taken on, 2. Network environments affect the way in which research projects are planned and carried out. We will exemplify these two ideas by describing the SUMEX network and its evolution over time. The S U M E X Network The SUMEX resource, sponsored by the Division of Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health, has the primary mission of promoting research in A[ applied to medicine
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