| John Towns / Invitation from Tim Cockerill | |
| Title: | PMI Mtg | |
| Location: | 2100 NCSA | |
| Guests: | Ian Brooks, Michelle Butler, Dora Cai, Tim Cockerill, Wendy Edwards, Jim Ferguson, Joseph Futrelle, Sandra Kappes, Terry McLaren, Jim Myers, Emilie Shoop, John Towns, Andrew Wadsworth and Tim Wentling | |
| Schedule: | Friday, September 14, 2007 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM | |
| Agenda: | At 09:23 AM 9/10/2007, Ian Brooks wrote: Amber, Early tomorrow afternoon would be a good time to schedule this meeting. We will need input from groups involved in interface design, data transmission (local and very long distance), data storage, cyberenvironment development, training, and support. Thanks Ian Ian-- We need to get a meeting together ASAP to outline the requirements and pull initial plans together. Please work with Amber to get something scheduled. At 01:34 PM 9/7/2007, Ian Brooks wrote: John, I am going to need help from PI and CET putting together the proposal. There are going to be two initial phases to our work, the first being to put together the capability to transmit and store data being collected on the ground and the second to develop the cyberenvironment to use the data to make efficient operational decisions. The first phase will have to occur very quickly and will fall primarily on PI. The second phase will be primarily CET and CAC and will be an ongoing effort that lasts multiple years as the models become increasing sophisticated. I am expecting that our target timelines will be on the order of 3-4 months for the initial data capture and 6-9 months for the base CE, the pressure obviously being that the current administration leaves office in <18 months and wants results before they do. Ian Ian-- Let us know if there is anything that we can help with from PI...\ -John At 11:28 AM 9/6/2007, Thom Dunning wrote: Ian, Sounds very encouraging. Too bad you weren't able to attend the meeting, but it sounds like you got good feedback on the meeting from the ones there. Thom On 9/5/07 1:06 PM, "Ian Brooks" <ian@ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote: All, I had a very productive discussion over dinner last night with Mike Saag, Director of the Infectious Disease Division at UAB. The EMR they have designed for managing the 100,000+ HIV/AIDS patients they have under care in Zambia matches our philosophy of the EMR very closely, focusing on patient care and procedures rather than databases and billing and there are clearly opportunities for development. He was also not happy with the bioinformatics core of the UAB CTSA proposal and there may be an opportunity to work together on that after this proposal cycle. Unfortunately the dinner left me with a case of food poisoning and I was unable to attend the meeting with Admiral Ziemer today. I did, however, just talk with Bob Novak and it seems as though the meeting went very well. The two PMI scientific staff members in attendance had obviously briefed the Admiral well and both are long time colleagues of Bob. This led to the team's presentation (draft attached) being cut off quickly as they had already bought into the IMM aproach and replaced with a discussion of PMI's needs and program holes. As a result we have been asked to submit three proposals! The one we were hoping for, to implement the full program in Kenya, as well as an environmentally focused program in Zambia, and a surveillance program in Zanzibar. No budgets were discussed, but Ziemer stated that apart from PMI's resources he could advocate for the consortium to other funding sources, such as Gates and the Global Fund. It is not clear if we would need funds from these sources for the projects outlined or to scale the effort in the future. As expected his focus is on getting demonstrable results fast and although no deadline was stated the desired turn around time for the proposals is a matter of a few weeks!!! Obviously given the time frame these are not going to be NIH/NSF level detail, there is significant overlap between them, and we have the Gates LOI to work from, but it is going to be a real challenge. Ian |
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