Data General Brings Healthcare Organizations to the Web With the Harmonie Group's WebKit for Healthcare.ATLANTA--(BW HealthWire)--Feb. 22, 1999-- The Harmonie Group's Sophisticated Web Authoring Tool Kit for Building Web Sites and Intranets Extends Data General's Family of Enterprise Solutions for Healthcare Healthcare organizations will now be able to build and maintain Web sites and intranets more easily and bridge the information gap with its patients and providers, thanks to an agreement signed by Data General Corp. and Harmonie Group, Inc. Data General continues to bolster This article is about the pillow called a bolster. For other meanings of the word "bolster", see bolster (disambiguation). A bolster (etymology: Middle English, derived from Old English, and before that the Germanic word bulgstraz and expand its solutions for the healthcare industry with the addition of the Harmonie WebKit(TM) for Health Care. The Harmonie WebKit for Health Care is a platform-independent WorldWide Web-based authoring and content management system that enables all members of a healthcare organization to contribute to web content development regardless of prior computer experience. The content that is generated for the Web site or intranet can then be stored on Data General's AViiON enterprise servers or CLARiiON advanced storage solutions. With this new World Wide Web capability, healthcare organizations will be able to provide consumers with more information to manage their health, such as general information on the facility, patient/customer services, listing of physicians, news updates, hosting of events, research groups, training programs, useful links to other Web sites, frequently asked questions, and policies and procedures Policies and Procedures are a set of documents that describe an organization's policies for operation and the procedures necessary to fulfill the policies. They are often initiated because of some external requirement, such as environmental compliance or other governmental . Data General and Harmonie Group will debut this collaborative solution for the first time at the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society '99 (HIMSS HIMSS Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society ) show taking place February 21 - 25 at the Georgia World Congress Center The Georgia World Congress Center or GWCC is the major convention center in Atlanta. It is the fourth-largest convention center in the United States at 1.4 million ft2 (130,000 m2) and hosts more than a million visitors each year. . "The Harmonie WebKit helped us streamline our Internet/Intranet development. The process has been smooth and quick and we now offer wider distribution and more in-depth medical information to both the community and the hospital staff," states Diane Keogh, chief information officer for Newton Wellesley Hospital The Wellesley Hospital was a teaching hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada affiliated with the University of Toronto. It was founded by Dr. Herbert Bruce as a private hospital, but became a public one in 1942. in Massachusetts. "One of the most exciting features is the ability to create a search engine on our Intranet so that hospital employees can quickly access a specific hospital policy and procedure." "Healthcare is a local issue and all health systems should put themselves in a position to broadcast their services to their local consumers, patients and physicians - our relationship with Harmonie Group helps us to achieve this goal," said Peter Stone, vice president of product planning Product Planning is the ongoing process of identifying and articulating market requirements that define a product’s feature set. See also
"Establishing and maintaining a Web site containing all of your health care enterprise's information is a daunting daunt tr.v. daunt·ed, daunt·ing, daunts To abate the courage of; discourage. See Synonyms at dismay. [Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin challenge. The Harmonie WebKit for Health Care provides an efficient mechanism for acquiring, organizing, maintaining, and presenting information. Content management is facilitated by the responsible content providers without requiring them to know how to create a Web page" states Dr. Jonathan Schaffer Jonathan Schaffer is an American philosopher specializing in Metaphysics and Epistemology. Since earning his PhD. from Rutgers in 1999, Schaffer has published 33 papers. He wrote his dissertation - "Causation and the Probabilities of Processes" - under Brian McLaughin. , President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Harmonie Group. "Our approach incorporates databases for storing content; a set of web-based forms, accessed through a browser browser Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used , for structured content entry; and a mechanism for generating Web pages on demand from the database according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. pre-defined templates." Benefits of The Harmonie WebKit for Health Care Offered by Data General Data General's solutions combined with the Harmonie WebKit's content-specific form tools distribute the responsibility for content development and maintenance throughout the enterprise, while providing a number of editorial safeguards to ensure the quality and appropriateness of the information. The structured entry of the information does not require any prior knowledge of HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. coding. The Harmonie WebKit for Health Care will allow healthcare organizations to: -0-
-- Establish a professional, comprehensive presence for a healthcare
organization on the World Wide Web or an intranet
-- Market a healthcare organization's enterprise to consumers and
referring physicians
-- Publish important information in real time for patients and
providers
-- Improve customer service
-- Reduce operational costs by facilitating the acquisition,
processing and transfer of information
-- Extend the life of legacy applications and systems via the World
Wide Web
-0- The Harmonie WebKit for Health Care provides access to information sources through the World Wide Web using common browsers. Intranet and/or Internet access See how to access the Internet. can be provided depending on target audiences or the security requirements of the content. Different levels of security and access protection can be provided for specific resources depending on the nature and sensitivity of the content. The Harmonie WebKit for Health Care incorporates databases for storing Web content, a web-based authoring system for structured content entry, and a mechanism for dynamically generating web pages. The Harmonie WebKit for Health Care includes modules for the Authoring/Editing System, Clinical Services Directories, Clinical Provider Locators, Calendar and Event Management, and Education and Reference. Data General Showcases Enterprise Solutions at HIMSS `99 Data General's Healthcare division will combine its leading server and storage technologies with strategic applications from the industry's major healthcare software providers at the HIMSS '99 show, which runs from February 21-25 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA. Data General has been a leading provider of healthcare solutions for the past 20 years. Its systems are used by more than 1,200 hospitals worldwide. Data General will demonstrate solutions designed specifically for the healthcare industry, including Internet/intranet, point-of-care, decision support, imaging and data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse . Pricing and Availability The Harmonie WebKit for Health Care is currently available through Data General's Healthcare Division. The Harmonie WebKit is $85,000 per license and implementation costs vary per organization. For more information please contact 1-800-DATAGEN or visit the Data General Web site at www.dg.com. About The Harmonie Group The Harmonie Group specializes in component-based modular solutions and integrated strategies for the healthcare enterprise. The Harmonie Group is the technology transfer affiliate of the Decision Systems Group of Brigham and Women's Hospital Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is a hospital in the Longwood Area of the Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Mission Hill. With Massachusetts General Hospital, it is one of the two founding members of Partners HealthCare. , Partners Healthcare Partners HealthCare is a non-profit organization that owns several hospitals in Massachusetts, primarily in the Boston area. Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital founded the organization in 1994. and Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. It is a prestigious American medical school located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. . For more information, please contact Julie McKay at 617-732-9300 or visit the Harmonie Group web site at www.harmonie.com. AViiON and CLARiiON are registered trademarks of Data General Corporation. All other brand names and product names referred to in this press release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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