ISI’s Medical Information Systems researchers explore the intersection of healthcare and informatics.  Launched in 2008, MIS is applying Grid computing and other advanced information sciences concepts in an effort to transform the discovery processes, practice and delivery of healthcare worldwide.

The division is led by Carl Kesselman, Ph.D., one of the fathers of Grid computing and the GLOBUS open-source toolbox, and Stephan Erberich, Ph.D., creator of the award-winning GLOBUS Medicus and the Grid system for high-resolution online image exchange.  MIS specialties include Grid computing, information security, service-oriented architectures, and imaging and medical informatics.  

Researchers work closely with ISI’s highly regarded artificial intelligence, networking and distributed systems experts, as well as with two of USC’s nationally ranked Viterbi School of Engineering units:  the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering.

MIS also functions as the technical think tank for the inter-disciplinary Center for Healthcare Informatics, a nonprofit coalition of academic, public and private institutions.  CHI is seeking to revolutionize very large scale, integrated solution for healthcare research and knowledge delivery.  CHI intends to create a secure, seamless, global computing platform for creating and exchanging health information between the public, private and academic sectors.  Its goal:  anintelligent Grid that will bridge vast, disparate, functionally and geographically isolated medical data sources. The collaboration focuses on providing medical practitioners with world-class knowledge in realtime - when insights have the greatest ability to improve outcomes and patient care.