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To: Charles Hughes who wrote (1188)	9/10/1998 2:23:00 PM
From: J. Kittle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5102

Don't forget to add Unauthorized perusal of charts. That's what scares me. Jeff

To: Charles Hughes who wrote (1188)	9/10/1998 6:58:00 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

1. Image records (and other binaries,) for EKGs, xrays, and so on. This has only recently (last 10 years) become practical even for large centers. Bandwidth continues to be a problem here. But I agree, standards are still a problem. But government intervention isn't a solution. HCFA has, over the past few years, changed course on claim formats numerous times. Now, it has put off adoption of ANSI X12 (over the still prevalent, but very outdated NSF). These specs do not even have the capability to transmit the most basic (text) op-notes, let alone films. And HCFA has recently moved the mandate on X12 to after 2000, which means at that time there will STILL be no widespread ability to transmit more than the most basic of opnotes, etc. While there are numerous projects underway to develop reasonable standards for medical records, the problem is vast and is not going to be addressed anytime soon. I don't see where the web involvement is "happening already", at least not at any substantial rate. I think a lot of the holdup is out of concern over security. I'm not sure I'D agree the medical industry is getting there!!!

To: Charles Hughes who wrote (1188)	9/11/1998 7:22:00 AM
From: Peter Shenderov	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

>> Where the direction got lost was twofold: >> >>1. Image records (and other binaries,) for EKGs, xrays, and so on. >>This has only recently (last 10 years) become practical even for >>large centers. >> >>2. Subsequently, image records for small practices. Inprise and >>IFMX could both help here, IFMX because of datablades and Objects, >>INPR because of tools. >> >> The health care industry is entering the information age revolution now. As a medical physicist, I am involved in two different (developed by two different vendors) PACS (Picture Archiving) systems in two major hospitals. Diagnostic radiology and MRI is going to be filmless and the standard involved is DICOM. The hospitals have been rewired with fiber optics to open the bandwidth. As I stressed in my previous message, system security is very important. That's why, I believe, for INPR to be the sole secure ORB provider (if it's so) is BIG.