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Global Health Initiatives, GHI, to Unveil New Health Information Management Infrastructure, HIMI, at Top Health Conference.


Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers

HIMSS HIMSS Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society  Conference 2000

Booth No. 7732

OAKLAND, Calif.--(BW HealthWire)--April 7, 2000

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. : "Critical Mass of Functionality Could End Pain of Traditional

Cost/Quality Trade-Off"

Web- and Object-based System Integrates Cognitive Layer with New Level

of Decision Support

Dr. Michael D. McDonald, president and CEO of Global Health Initiatives (GHI GHI Group Health Incorporated (HMO)
GHI German Historical Institute (Washington, DC)
GHI Ghost Hunters International
GHI Geohazards International
GHI Gustav Heinemann-Initiative
), a worldwide health system design and technology company based here, predicts the fundamental disruption of the cost/quality trade-off that has held managed care in a stranglehold since its inception.

The key, he says, is the "critical mass" of functionality of health care information management. McDonald plans to demonstrate a product that integrates what he terms a "cognitive layer" with a new level of decision support, "not available anywhere else"; a Web-based system using best-of-breed components.

The Sutter Gould Provider Intranet System will be demonstrated using GHI's new Health Information Management Infrastructure (HIMI) at the SUN Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982.  pavillion (booth No. 7732), at the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference 2000, April 9-13, 2000 in Dallas, Tex. Demonstrating along with GHI will be alliance partners Family Genetix and Porivo.

"The central promise of managed care - namely that costs would drop as preventive medicine preventive medicine, branch of medicine dealing with the prevention of disease and the maintenance of good health practices. Until recently preventive medicine was largely the domain of the U.S.  superseded traditional approaches - never materialized the way we all hoped," says McDonald. "Preventive efforts have helped, but the trade-off still drives the equation."

"By delivering the right information to the right place, at the right time, in the right way, quality will improve and costs will drop," says McDonald. "We've reached a tipping point The point in time in which a technology, procedure, service or philosophy has reached critical mass and becomes mainstream. See network effect. See also tip and ring.  in health information management."

HIMI is an object-based, interoperable system that integrates disparate information from across legacy systems and automates manual data processes.

The HIMI architecture uses common data structure, common event structures, publish/subscribe communications between all modules, cognitive layers, system-wide exception handlers, HL7-compliant data structures, 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.
 streams for data sharing The ability to share the same data resource with multiple applications or users. It implies that the data are stored in one or more servers in the network and that there is some software locking mechanism that prevents the same set of data from being changed by two people at the same time. , and the Enterprise Java Beans platform.

GHI's Provider Intranet System can be fully integrated with Personal Health Information Systems using the Patient Provider Communication System to deliver patient and consumer health resources for a complete health management system solution.
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