X-Informatics Homework 5

Due Monday February 25 2002

Consider the PowerPoint presention topic2spring02.ppt and list of subtopics

• Patient Records
• Telemedicine
• Visualization for surgeons
• Storage and access to data from Instruments
• Insurance Companies
• Nanotechnology MEMS
• Biomedical developments -- New drugs
• Biomedical developments -- Human genome

Choose one of these topics and design an information system for it. Describe any areas where XML Schema would be valuable but don't into details. Describe what capbilities tyou would implement and issues as to needed resources (computers, networks etc.)