The Traditional Medical Info Legacy: Osler

* New, Recent and Coming Attractions:

* Recent Activities:

I.B.M. Grid Networking, Open Source Code and Open System Standards for rapid development, deployment and maintenance of complex computer systems.

That is one view of the Future for BioMedical Informatics. Finance and Resource Management like IDS and HFMA are others.

Here the focus is on teaching and patient care in the tradition of Sir William Osler. Summer Rounds: Lyme Disease 2001-08-15 3 meg ppt file. You may prefer a browser based presentation of the Lyme bug. Thanks to John Currington, MD for his great work and his permission to put his work on the Internet.

AVE, a division of Medtronics, is a close neighbor of ours in Sonoma County. The link is an implanted atrial pacemaker and multimedia demo of an "Smart Heart "I.C.D device recently popularized by V.P. Richard Cheney. The link is via the Technology Demo series at the nytimes. You will need to set up a free account with the nytimes.com. for username and password access.

An Interactive�Teaching Carrel Web Application. Take the || Quik_Tour || || Beginners Tutorial ||

"Ready => Set => GoNet: ...... Built for Speed: Good to Know.....Good to Go.

Open Access, Open Arms, Open Doors, Open Source, Open Skies,

Unless you are afraid to Fly using the tried, true and tested OODA strategy"

• Search, Find� and Query || Quik_DB || by speaker, date, sponsor, affiliation for a Local CME Listting provided by the Firestone Project.
• Site ISP Site Stats
• Exercises and Quizzes.
• Telecommunications and Internetworking information.
• System, Networking and Database administration sections.
• Hypertext articles with links, examples, demonstrations, resources and definitions in context.
• Publishing standards and technical writing using html and pdf file formats.
• News about Medicine, Science and Technology.
• Sir William Osler history and writings.

Factoids:

The IBM PC recently celebrated its 20th birthday.

�� Larry Weed is the Father of the SOAP medical chart recording schema.

Health topics are among the most frequent search engine queries by consumers.

CD- RW and DVD are the leaders of the digital medias for the evolving paperless medical record. DVD is just around the corner.

URL = Universal Resource Locator. "Earls" are one of the Internet's addressing standards.

HIPAA = Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Medical Records, Patient Medical Information Privacy Protection and forthcoming Federal Regulations . It is a Civil Rights issue and all the stakeholders are political players. Guidelines, Regulations, Legislation and Law.

LAMP = Linux, Apache, MySQL and (Perl, Python, PHP)

Esse quam vider -- John Locke (To be, rather than to seem)

"All good craftsmen use tools that they know how to maintain and keep sharp"

Moving IT x 3
Upward, Outward and Onward
with the power of IT³ Integration and Interpretation by example.

• Three key Technologies drive this Carrel:

1. * Information: gathering, storing , accessing and presenting the facts & the data. We prefer indexing content and allowing the user to explore links and use several search engines This is an alternative to the more standard approach of constructing site maps, subject directories and buttons that offer structured pathways around the information landscape.� One advantage of search engines is fast and efficient site updating and modification. A second is the ability to mix applications, files and documents into integrated on-the-fly presentations as needed. Presentations may use html WWW pages, PDF documents, or PowerPoint.

2. * Instruction:Integrated content that is current, reliable, relevant , interpreted and dynamically generated so as to inform snd educate..

3. * Internet: A meshed LAN/WAN network of global distributed digital computing and communication hosts. Each host uses standardized Web, telnet email and ftp client-server applications and services to sent and receive files in may formats.

Examples of Clinical Medicine Internet Applications: Past, Present, and Future.

Breaking the boundaries of Time and Distance.

• Medical Imaging: Digital Photos

• Telemedicine, Webcasting, Video conferencing.

• Voice over IP.

• CD-ROM_RW & DVD record storage and archiving.

• Store and Forward Data access on the server.

• Streaming of Voice and Video over IP

• Presentations, messaging, conferences.

• 24/7 operation cycle with multiple modes, styles and points of access.

• G)raphic U)ser Inteface (GUI) frontend clients: datafarm barns on the backend (database server) These are distributed platforms that acquire, manipulate, store, summarize, publish and present information. Scientific American WebMD. Medicine Professional Library for example.

• Standardization of Critical Care and Chronic Disease pathways of integrated, patient centered management.

• Unification of the Inpatient-Outpatient medical record.

• Quality of Care Management & Reporting System.

• E-Paper communications with Acrobat, Reader & PDF via e-mail attachments, forms, newsletters etc to the screen, printer or press typesetter.

• e-Document authoring, securing, publishing, distributing and archiving using off the shelf applications, ie PDF and Acrobat Pro, Reader and MacroMedia Flash from Adobe.

• Patient privacy, system reliability, security & ease of access.

• Web based , three tiered, RDBMS backed applications.

• e-Learning, e-testing, e-certification.