Question for David Forslund: Is this significantly different in concept from the work you've already done in the SW? Perhaps you might be interested in contacting Dr. Slater
Dan Johnson On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 21:34, Bruce Slater wrote: > To the List: > > We have a grant to study the feasibility of connecting a state-wide group of > hospitals, clinics, private offices and labs. The grant is a planning grant > (<200K US) for an implementation grant (<2M US) to make the system happen. > The goals of the system would be: > > A patient from any entity would be recognized at any of the other entities > and identified from others of similar name, age and demographic > characteristics. > A provider could request, with proper authentication and permission from the > patient, any information at a linked facility for electronic delivery to the > providers facility. > A provider could order tests, imaging and consults to be done at any linked > entity for their patient. > > Constraints: > The entities have completely unrelated commercial vendors (none open source) > and some have no electronic infrastructure. > The entities have local customization expertise across the spectrum from none > to a team of experts. > Bandwidth is variable from fiber to dial-up. > > I searched back over the last year or so in the list and picked out some > posts referring to MPI and like subjects. > > So, the opportunity are a couple at least: > An open source patient identifier functionality > An open source record exchange system > An open source EHR to be distributed to facilities currently without such.
