Review of Three Divisions of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Fiscal Year 2015 (2015) / Chapter Skim
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4 Software and Systems Division
4 Software and Systems Division
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• The degree of community involvement, balancing leadership and impartial convening for standards development and community engagement. ASSESSMENT OF TECHNICAL PROGRAMS AND PORTFOLIO OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERTISE The projects presented by the SSD staff span a wide range, from individual staff projects that are preliminary research investigations to broader initiatives that are coupled to external communities.
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Characterizing the agreement between segmentation and tracking algorithms is a crucial and challenging component of this effort, as is the need to quickly integrate and stitch disjoint patches of image data. The computational metrology SSD group has done admirable work in attracting strong scientific collaborators in the stem cell therapy area and in collaborating with this group to generate both publicly distributed software and published scientific results.
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The SSD could do more in the development of effective and publicly disseminated software test tools and methodologies. Challenges remain regarding the mechanisms through which confident assurance judgments can be made for particular voting devices.
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The SSD software assurance project focuses specifically on tools for static software analysis. There are many other critical aspects of assurance practice, with broad-scope models such as the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle and the Building Security in Maturity Model evaluation framework.
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Complicating the process is the vast amount of data space dedicated to systems and applications software as well as associated common data assets. Also complicating the process is uncertainty regarding the actions to take, for example, in a law enforcement situation in the immediate moments when computers and mobile devices are seized and potentially volatile data needs to be preserved.
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and data exchanges, there is an expectation that the big data health information infrastructure necessary for an information and communications ecosystem needed to achieve major progress will be created. With respect to the big data ecosystem, EHRs and related public health data generators need to be able to create health records from a common data strategy through the nation's recent investments in health information and communication technology (HICT)
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One choice is to limit its EHR-related work so that it focuses, essentially, only on relevant but narrow technology issues and does not represent itself as working on meaningful use or interoperability components, which intrinsically involve clinical information relating to decision making and clinical care. Alternatively, the SSD could work through a well-defined and circumscribed agenda coordinated with the other relevant key government agencies, including ONC, the National Library of Medicine (NLM)
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With many SSD activities establishing patterns for future technical development, it is important that they be fully informed regarding considerations of security, as well as functionality, performance, and other quality attributes. This applies, for example, to work related to voting, health data management, and CPS.
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The clinical informaticians need not be physicians, because clinical informatics is an interdisciplinary field; a well-trained nurse informatician may be equally effective. The extramural visibility and importance of the HITECH electronic health record initiative is such that it should only fail on sound merits rather than from lack of internal collaboration and coordination across agencies having the relevant expertise.
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