HealtheVet Desktop
Introduction

Introduction
The HealtheVet Desktop is the application framework that hosts the Veterans Administration’s (VA’s) new generation of clinical applications. The Care Management project is the first project to run inside the HealtheVet Desktop. Eventually, most of the clinical applications used at the VA will be hosted within the HealtheVet Desktop.

This distribution of the HealtheVet Desktop includes the four Care Management perspectives (perspectives are similar to applications). The perspectives included are: This distribution of HealtheVet Desktop also includes a Task Editor, which allows you to create patient-related tasks. The tasks you can create are based on items listed in the Clinician and Nurse Dashboards. For example, using the Task Editor, you could create a task to call a patient based on a lab result indicating an abnormal white blood cell count. Any user can view and act on tasks created in the Task Editor.

Links to different perspectives are located in the perspective selector on the left side of the HealtheVet Desktop (graphic). To display a new perspective, simply click the appropriate link. For example, to display the Sign List perspective, click Sign List on the HealtheVet Desktop perspective selector.

The output from the current perspective is displayed in the output (right) pane. The output pane is further divided into an upper pane and a lower pane. The upper pane contains general information, while the lower pane contains detailed information about the items you selected in the upper pane.

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