Global Health Initiatives, GHI, to Unveil New Health Information Management Infrastructure, HIMI, at Top Health Conference.Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers HIMSS Conference 2000 Booth No. 7732 OAKLAND, Calif.--(BW HealthWire)--April 7, 2000 CEO: "Critical Mass Critical Mass A very important or crucial stage in a company's development.Notes: For example, you might hear that a company has grown to a critical mass where it has the economies of scale to compete globally. See also: Economies of Scale of Functionality Could End Pain of Traditional Cost/Quality Trade-Off" Web- and Object-based See object-oriented programming. System Integrates Cognitive Layer with New Level of Decision Support Dr. Michael D. McDonald, president and CEO of Global Health Initiatives (GHI), 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 Himi (hē`mē), city (1990 pop. 60,766), Toyama prefecture, W central Honshu, Japan, on Toyama Bay. It is a fishing port and agricultural distribution center.) at the SUN Microsystems 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. Public Health Service or state and local health departments, but it has become an important consideration of health maintenance organizations, private practitioners, and other health care providers. superseded traditional approaches - never materialized the way we all hoped," says McDonald.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. 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 The physical layout of data. Data fields, memo fields, fixed length fields, variable length fields, records, word processing documents, spreadsheets, data files, database files and indexes are all examples of data structures., common event structures, publish/subscribe communications between all modules, cognitive layers, system-wide exception handlers exception handler - Special code which is called when an exception occurs during the execution of a program. If the programmer does not provide a handler for a given exception, a built-in system exception handler will usually be called resulting in abortion of the program run and some kind of error indication being returned to the user. Examples of exception handler mechanisms are Unix's signal calls and Lisp's catch and throw., HL7-compliant data structures, XML streams for data sharing, 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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