2004 Breakout Sessions

C1 Breakout Session
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Shared Pathology Informatics Network
Dr.Crowley, Dr. Berkowicz and Mr. Mitchell

The Shared Pathology Informatics Network is an NCI-funded consortium project involving Harvard, University of Indiana, University of Pittsburgh, and the University of California, Los Angeles. The purpose of the project is to develop methods and processes for searching and accessing surgical pathology reports and archived tissue across institutional boundaries. In this breakout session, we will discuss and demonstrate the SPIN peer-to-peer architecture, Java-based resources for converting free-text reports into concept-coded XML documents, and tools for querying the network. Future plans for the project will be outlined. The tools developed by SPIN are open-source, and are freely available for use by the community. Institutions are invited to use these tools, and to consider interacting with networks in the future.