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LHNCBC: Scalable Information Infrastructure (SII)
Scalable Information Infrastructure (SII)
 
The Scalable Information Infrastructure initiative encourages the development of health-related applications of Advanced Network Infrastructure in Health and Disaster Management. Applications include scalable, network aware, real-time technology applications dependent on wireless technology, geographic information systems, and authentication technologies in a networked environment. The initiative focuses on situations that require or greatly benefit from the application of these technologies in health care, medical decision-making, public health, large-scale health emergencies, health education, and biomedical, clinical and health services research.

Projects must use test-bed networks linking one or more of the following: hospitals, clinics, health practitioners' offices, patients' homes, health professional schools, medical libraries, universities, medical research centers and laboratories, or public health authorities. Eleven Scalable Information Infrastructure awards totaling almost $40 million over three years were awarded in October 2003.