The National Information Infrastructure (NIl) that will evolve in the 1990's and beyond will impact many institutions of life. These include the way we learn and do science, self-caring, access to civil/information infrastructure systems & services, and management & control of manufacturing processes. The future scenario for the NIl assumes wireless networks used by walkstations realizing the d...

In 2005, Dr David Brailer, our first National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, had a vision of widespread adoption of electronic health records connected through networks run by regional health-information organizations. An advisory panel recommended at that time that proactive fraud management functions be embedded in this emerging information infrastructure. This has not occurre...

This paper describes an architecture for the next generation of information gathering systems. The paper is based on a research proposal whose goal is to exploit the vast amount of information sources available today on the NII including a growing number of digital libraries, independent news agencies, government agencies, as well as human experts providing a variety of services. The large numb...

This paper presents the VSLHDS project (Very Large Scale Hypermedia Delivery System), one network collaboration research between NII and NAiST. The goal of this project is the study design and implementation of a very large scale hypermedia delivery system integrated with Natural Language Processing based approach to Thai text retrieval. Distance learning tutorials have been setup between NII a...

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Since the early 1990s, the federal government has set its sights on enacting legislation to establish a national infrastructure for the storage and transmission of electronic health records. In 1996, Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to protect individuals from abuse by health insurance companies and to provide a “floor” of mandatory privacy standar...

MusicAustralia is a national music discovery service, developed by the National Library of Australia and ScreenSound Australia, National Film and Sound Archive. The service aims to provide seamless access to music and music information resources, in multiple formats, from custodians across all cultural sectors. This paper describes the development of the service, including its architecture, and...