On 9 Aug 2004, at 2:53 PM, David Derauf wrote:
“A new concept called the Digital Patient Folder (DPF) provides a solution
for this problem. DPFs make the transition to paperless possible without
losing “the paper experience.” To successfully address patient care and
safety, improve business efficiency, reduce costs and enhance revenue cycle
management, a DPF should be part of your overall e-HIM strategy. The DPF
must be able to gather its information from a variety of platforms and
sources, so it must be highly compatible with a wide range of hospital
systems and act as a true multimedia patient folder, containing voice,
images, forms and text.”
http://health-care-it.advanceweb.com/common/editorial/editorial.aspx? CC=38004
Any open source work on DPF solutions to anyone’s knowledge?
Mr. Bajaj's "Digital Patient Folder" seems to me not a new concept but rather a generic restatement of portions of the full HIT framework proposed by Dr. Brailer. I saw Dr. Emory Fry demonstrate what can be called a "Digital Patient Folder" at OSCHA 2002 at UCLA, which deployed a web dashboard to display composite patient views gleaned from previously disparate standalone HIT silos. At root "Brailerware" is simply the interoperability necessary to view "complete, accurate, and timely information at the point of care for both clinicians and consumers."
http://www.hhs.gov/onchit/framework/hitframework/readiness.html
Conveniently for this well placed advertorial, Mr Bajaj's employer just happens to sell a DPF
http://www.vianeta.com/VianetaVE/digitalpatient2.asp
It's nice to know that the Vianeta DPF is not merely compatible, it's "super compatible". And it's also not just easy to use, it's "remarkably easy to use."
I think the DPF is just EHR under a marketing name. And if you want an open source DPF, I think there are around ten decent open source EHR options in varying stages of readiness.
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