What's Next for VistaWeb?
In no particular order:
- DoD, FHIE
- CCOW, so it can work from the CPRS Tools menu
- CCR XML interchange
- Move to J2EE, WebLogic Server
- Surgery reports
- ECG viewing (from any vendor)
- Viewing of any DICOM image set (radiology, cardiology, etc.)
- VistaWeb warehousing (data for decision support)
What's Next for MDO?
In no particular order:
- limited version as COM object for use with Windows apps,
vendor packages, etc.
- base object model on HL7 ver. 3 RIM model
- implement other protocols (HL7, DICOM, ODBC, JDBC, etc.)
Other Uses for MDO
- night crawlers: patients are marked sensitive or deceased in one
site but not another. Night crawler software can ferret out these
cases.
- patient registration: get the patient's Next-of-kin, insurance,
name, SSN data from the patient's home site.
- patient demographics correction: some vendor systems don't have ADT
but do have open databases. Patient identifiers entered by hand can
be resolved with an MDO-driven web app.
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