The standard way to deliver visual information accross the world is the World Wide Web. There are viewers for almost every major platform, the protocol is well known and security is built in at many levels. It is therefore an ideal choice as a delivery platform for this project.
The first step was created at Children's Hospital. It is a demo consisting of Perl scripts that query a scrubbed database and returns the information as HTML over the Web. Medical data can thus be viewed from anywhere.
The next step is to create a delivery system that will allow the user to receive data from many institutions and EMRSes at the same site. For this, a group of Boston hospitals is working together to define a messaging standard as part of a set of requirements a site has to fullfill for the exchange of information, and applications to retrieve and deliver this information over the Web. design of the multi-database system.
16/2/99
Pages haven't been looked at in years. The technology has migrated to a spinoff, W3Health, but is also now in use for the BILILight project. Most demo's are now off-line.
3/3/97
After milking the server-side C++ architecture for all it is worth for this stage of research, I am abandoning the code. John Halamka's CareWeb is where that technology is going, and good sailing to it. Meanwhile, the experiment continues with the JAMI, the JAVA-basedel-time ICU-data-enabled browser-side integration module. Therefore, disregard the architecture pages here - they are for the C++ Agglutinator code. The HL7 pages are still the message format used, but have yet to incorporate lab-value data.
2/27/96
The demo of the multi-source database viewer is now stable enough for a limited release. If you are an approved guest, you can view the demo here. The demo still regularly gets taken off the air for impromvement and maintenance.