This page covers the purpose and benefits of the vision center, as well as potential participation, services, teaming, and funding vehicle.  Other sections contain more detail on some of the specific areas.

Vision Center Purpose

 

The Purpose of the Vision Center is to provide a central focus for the System, provide as much commonality in design and marketing, and guide its Vision.

• Establishes a Cross Company/Industry Steering Committee to help guide and focus the Initiative

• Strong opportunity to leverage off of one or more Universities (public/private sector cooperation)

• Enables Vision and Innovation - to grow the capabilities and keep the system evolving as new technology and ideas emerge

• Creates a Joint Business Development, Marketing, Sales, and Lobbying Arm for the Initiative

• Provides Joint Legal Services – bilateral and general NDAs, system warranties, sales, and general reviews of contracts and released material

• Coordinate Joint Cross Company/Industry Activities

• Provide a shared Location for presentations, materials, training, and demonstrations

• Provide a shared Interoperability Lab for development and upgrade testing

• Provide (online, Center, and remote site) training for Developers, Integrators, and End-Users

• Provide a Central IT Infrastructure Site for Commercial Product and Development Systems and Data

• Develop and supply low cost systems to support demos, training, integration testing, and development

• Develop and sell Pre-Packaged Systems and Reference Models for a variety of US and International Government and Commercial Applications

• Create site guidelines for different applications

 

Vision Center Benefits

• Creates Cross Industry/Company Oversight, Direction, and Collaboration

• Provides a location to “Show and Sell the Vision” (Demonstration, Seminar, and Training Facility)

• Establishes a Central Business Development, Marketing, and Lobbying Arm

• Gets widespread adoption of the system across different National and International Commercial and Government Organizations

• Cross-sells individual products and services as part of the overall system

• Coordinates Common Forums, Conventions, and Tradeshows

• Provides a location for the Commercial and Development Infrastructure

• Creates Commercial Packages (custom and pre-packaged systems) for Public and Government Customers

• Manages all of the data associated with the Initiative (Standards, Development, Business Development, Device Configurations, Marketing, etc.)

• Establishes affordable Healthcare options using intelligent design, leverage off of existing technology, common development, product volumes, and part of covered insurance

• Provides High-Quality and Lower-Cost Products and services using a common Interoperability Lab, Development Platform and Tools, and Product Support

• Creates low cost testing, training, development, and demo capabilities for the Center and remote sites

• Provides open SW and HW development kits to aid in the development of devices and features, as well as encourage innovation in this area

• Provides low cost Internationalization Services for applications and devices

 

Center Services

• Vision Center

• Cross Industry/Company/Center Coordination Services

• Development and Internationalization Services

• Training Services

• Product Support

• Integration Services

• Demonstration, Conference, and Trade Show Services

• Product Displays

• Development and Testing

• Hosted System Services

 

Participants

 

Direct

• Steering Committee

• Device Companies

• Services Companies

• Universities

• Core System

• Representatives from

  • Health Organizations

  • Call Centers

  • Insurance

Indirect

• US Government

  • Medicare

  • Emergency Services

  • Etc.

• Health Organizations

• Advocacy Groups

• Call Centers

• Telecommunications

• Insurance Industry

 

Teaming and Leveraging

• The System is made up of Building Blocks that can be created by a single company, subcontracted, or leveraged off development by many companies across many industries

• Different configurations of the system, supporting different groups of individuals and specific areas, could be supported through specialized integrators

• Universities could play big parts in the development, test, and integration of several parts of the Systems (e.g. Identity and Information System, General Object Interfaces and Methods, Medical Apps and Devices, Legacy Gateway(s), Disaster Relief, Adaptive Exam Decision Trees, Demo/Test Lab, Internationalization Services, etc.)

• There are a lot of companies that existing technological focus and applications that can be incorporated as they are, or modified to fit into the system

  • Existing Medical Devices and Systems

  • Existing Security (and “Whole Home” control) Devices and Systems

  • Existing Commercial and End-user Devices

  • Existing Apps and Internet Information Services

  • Existing Personal Service Ratings, Procurement, and Payment Systems

  • Existing Telecommunications and Networking Companies

  • Existing Secure User Accounts with Application and  Standard and HIPPA Data Cloud Technologies

  • Existing Medical Advice Websites (and building of decision trees for information collection and special disaster scenarios)

  • Existing Trials and implementations of the features of the system at institutions