Network Infrastructure - UT System needs a telecommunications structure. UT System should encourage the telephone companies to solve the problem. They do not necessarily need to own the fiber. In addition, they should learn from the Supercomputer project that locating projects centrally is often not the most effective solution. The need for compression technology exists.
Cost effectiveness is a consideration.
A telecommunications strategy is necessary. Communities may transition with room sharing, which would lead to individual physician level desktop equipment. Journey Care - This opportunity would apply technology to connect with networks and physicians to transfer proprietary patient information and images, and to enable longer term patient and physician consult relationships. Standards - UT System could assist with standards development by moving System components toward data standards. The people who must be heavily influenced are not the components, but instead the vendors.