Information Systems Engineering Group

The function of Information Systems Engineering Group of Academic Technology is central to the mission of the Health Science center. It insures that the computational and informational resources required for the academic enterprise are available and appropriately integrated both within the Health Science Center and with the National Information Infrastructure (NII). The personal computer, with its associated network resources, has become an interactive workstation that is required for medical education, research and clinical decision making. Virtually all available information regardless of its form (i.e. textual, graphical, video and acoustical) is becoming instantaneously and directly accessible via these personal workstations.

Responsibilities of this group include:

• the design, implementation and maintenance of an integrated, academic computing environment.
• operation and maintenance of the crucial software and hardware systems required to integrate academic information and computer resources,
• operation of the archiving and network dissemination of digital forms of academic information: data bases, text, computer programs, images, video, sound, and multimedia documents,
• serving as the academic liaison with the University of Texas System Strategic Leadership Council (SLC), Information Technology, Management Council (ITMC), Texas Department of Information Resources, the Internet Activities Board (IAB), and other standards and computing organizations such as EDUCAUSE and Internet 2 whose activities influence the academic computing environment,
• serving as the Network Information Center designee responsible for the registration and appropriate operation of all Internet nodes operated by the Health Science Center,
• the establishment and implementation of standards and procedures for Academic Technology and information sharing within the UTHealth and the Texas Medical Center (TMC) community,
• providing technical design, development, and management expertise to other Academic Technology programs and UTHealth operational entities, and
• investigating new technologies and, when appropriate, integrate the required technologies into the Academic Technology environment.

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