Bioterrorism Response Suite. (News and Products).iWay Software has a Bioterrorism Response Suite to help city, state, and federal agencies address data collection, integration, and analysis issues associated with bioterrorism threats. The software suite has been developed in response to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC See Control Data, century date change and Back Orifice. CDC - Control Data Corporation ) requirement that public health agencies create bioterrorism response systems using funding allocated through the current fiscal year. The Bioterrorism Suite's technologies are designed to reduce government agencies' dependence on sophisticated skill sets and custom programming, lowering the time, cost, and effort, of building a bioterrorism response system. The suite aids in the collection and conversion of multiple documents and data from formidable healthcare infrastructures, including hospitals, laboratories, pharmacies, and medical practices and transforms them to shareable information. This information comes in a wide variety of formats, including Excel spreadsheets, flat files, XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. documents, HL7 documents, HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, documents, and others, putting strain on the overtaxed IT resources that are responsible for processing them. These files are received using different transport protocols, such as FTP FTP in full file transfer protocol Internet protocol that allows a computer to send files to or receive files from another computer. Like many Internet resources, FTP works by means of a client-server architecture; the user runs client software to connect to , EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) The electronic communication of business transactions, such as orders, confirmations and invoices, between organizations. Third parties provide EDI services that enable organizations with different equipment to connect. Value-Added Networks, HTTP HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. , and Web services, providing different levels of security that must be rationalised. The suite's collaboration component provides transport and transformation capabilities to automatically process any incoming documents into standard formats so that they can be utilised in follow-on processing. It also provides capabilities to share information with organisations and systems that adhere to thc CDC's National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS NEDSS National Electronic Disease Surveillance System NEDSS National Electronic Data Surveillance System ) standards. The information must be integrated with existing systems, including complex applications that were never designed to collaborate with each other. Public health agencies are especially hampered by the number of legacy systems typical of government organisations. The iWay Bioterrorism Response Suite includes components that provide real-time connections to applications and data-including legacy systems-without requiring custom integration code. www.iWaysoftware.com |
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