Visualization for Healthcare: Curing Cancer and Controlling Costs

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Visualization for HealthcareCuring Cancer and
Controlling Costs

• Terry S. YooVRC Government Liaison
• Head, 3D Informatics Program
• Office of High Performance Computing and
  CommunicationsLister Hill National Center for
  Biomedical Communications
• National Library of Medicine, National Institutes
  of Health
• Department of Health and Human Services

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iHealthBeat.org
Leavitt Calls for Development of Health IT
Standards May 03, 2005 HHS Secretary Mike
Leavitt on Monday said the federal government and
the health care industry must make a "forced
march commitment" to develop national standards
for health care IT systems, CQ HealthBeat
reports. At an annual American Hospital
Association meeting, Leavitt said that "if we do
not act and do not act soon," the health care
system will lose hundreds of millions of dollars
because of incompatible health care IT systems.
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iHealthBeat.org
Health IT Fund Part of 2006 Budget May 03,
2005 Congress last week passed a fiscal year
2006 2.56 trillion budget resolution, which
includes a reserve fund for health care
information technology, Healthcare IT News
reports. The reserve fund allows for a five-year
period to demonstrate how much money health care
IT and pay-for-performance projects save,
provided that the legislation does not raise the
deficit for fiscal years 2006 to 2010, Healthcare
IT News reports.
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Fighting Disease with Visualization
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Dear Terry, Following up on our discussion last
night, I started to think further on it. Above a
little scheme, with horizontally a space scale,
and vertically a time scale. Each position in the
box represents some aspect of fighting cancer. I
do not know anything about cancer, but even I
could fill in some boxes. Such a scheme could be
used as a frame in for a story on Fighting Cancer
with Visualization. Three versions What is done
by researchers and physicians, how has
visualization contributed (success-stories), and
how could advancements in visualization help
further. One nice aspect that almost any
visualization method could fit in. Best regards,
Jack van Wijk, May 3rd 2005
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Fighting Cancer

• Prevention (screening, personal management)
• Detection
• Treatment (medical, chemical)
• InfoVis for Bioinformatics, genomics.
• Drug discovery.
• Personalized treatment plan.
• Intervention (surgery, radiation)

TSYoo, OHPCC / NLM / NIH
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Fighting Cancer

• Image analysis - early detection
• angiogenesis
• Assessment
• Need for new biomarkers
• Oncologists disdain for imaging (computers).
• Physiological imaging, registration,
  segmentation, measurement, validation
• Reduce costs and time for bringing new drugs to
  market.
• Cardiac as a success story.

TSYoo, OHPCC / NLM / NIH
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Fighting Cancer

• Basic principles, factors affecting cancer.
• Genetics.
• Cell division.
• Identify the T2, T4, T8 and T22 by monoclonal
  antibodies? Focus?
• Causes virus? Human Pampalona Virus
• Immunity
• where is the breakdown, deficiency?

TSYoo, OHPCC / NLM / NIH
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Controlling Healthcare Costs

• Improving quality of life
• Complex interventions through small incisions.
• Image guidance? Visualization guidance?
• Empowering patients.
• Gauging risk factors - epidemiology
• Turning knowledge into action.
• Not No Child Left Behind.

TSYoo, OHPCC / NLM / NIH
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Why is YOO here?

• Good question.
• Opportunity.
• See needs at NIH.
• See needs in Vis.
• Requires change
• Accept NIH commitment.
• Prepare to engage the domain of healthcare.

TSYoo, OHPCC / NLM / NIH
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