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To: TickerHound who wrote (11196)	2/16/1999 8:57:00 PM
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( BW)(NC-DUKE-UNIV-MEDICAL) CCOW Demonstrates Visual Systems Integration at HIMSS '99 Health and Medical Writers ATLANTA--(BW HealthWire)--Feb. 16, 1999--The Clinical Context Object Workgroup (CCOW) will demonstrate its "Patient Link" and "User Link" standards for visual integration of health care applications at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference here (Feb. 21-25, 1999). CCOW's focus is to make it easy and reliable to operate multiple "best-in-class" software programs at the point of use. To achieve this, the participating information system vendors and users of CCOW have developed the "Patient Link" and "User Link" standards for visual integration at the desktop. The "Patient Link" standard allows application programs that use it to maintain a common patient link across those programs. When the user switches from patient to another in one application, these other applications follow automatically to present that patient's information. CCOW's "User Link" standard provides a solution to the annoying problem of requiring the clinician to log-on separately to each application. User Link allows the clinician to log-on once only, into the first application used. From that point on, the other programs will know and remember the user's identity, eliminating the need to reenter a username and password again and again. The user only needs to know the password for one of the designated applications in order to sign-on to all of the CCOW-compliant User Link-enabled applications on their desktop. The CCOW standards offer these benefits to both institutions and vendors: -- Security and control: The provider institution decides which applications can be trusted to authenticate users -- Clinician satisfaction: Clinicians appreciate the time saved when moving between participating software systems to view information about a particular patient, and for only having to log-on one time to access several applications -- Fast and cost-effective: The architecture can be applied quickly, and with low conversion costs for vendors who modify their products to incorporate them. -- Easy to adopt: the Patient Link and User Link specifications are technology-neutral, meaning implementation environments can be based on a range of technologies, including Microsoft ActiveX(tm), CORBA, and JAVA(tm), and across a wide variety of programming environments such as Microsoft's Visual C++, Visual Basic, Visual J++, and more. Increasing use and enthusiastic acceptance of the CCOW standard highlights how healthcare software products are evolving towards integration. For provider organizations, application integration costs will be reduced. From the user's perspective it means keystrokes saved and faster access to system functionality, as the log-on process and patient identification are performed automatically behind the scenes. Active CCOW Contributing Members include the following organizations. Those indicated with a slash 1 (/1) are participating in the CCOW interoperability demonstration at HIMSS '99, booth number 2611. 3M Health Information Systems/1 Baylor Health Care System Component Software International, Inc./1 ClinEffect Systems Community Sector Systems Corechange, Inc./1 Duke University Health System/1 Eclipsys Corporation Healthdyne Information Enterprises Healtheon Health Network Ventures Health Patterns, LLC Hewlett-Packard/1 IDX Systems Corporation/1 IMNET Systems, Inc. GE/Marquette Medical Systems/1 Mayo Foundation MedicaLogic/1 Mortara Instrument, Inc. NeoTool Development, LLC OSF HealthCare System Oacis Healthcare Systems Oceania, Inc./1 Sentillion, Inc./1 Shared Medical Systems Corporation Spacelabs Medical Stockell Healthcare Systems/1 Sunquest Information Systems VHA Inc. Wes Rishel Consulting The Clinical Context Object Workgroup is now a Special Interest Group of the Health Level 7 (HL7) Workgroup. CCOW will also participate in the Health Level 7 (HL7) media briefing at HIMSS '99, on Monday, February 22 from 1-2 p.m. in Room 158 W at the Georgia World Congress Center. The HL7 Spring Working Group Meeting will be held in Toronto, Ontario from April 26-30, 1999. For more information, visit hl7.org on the web. Started as a consortium of healthcare providers and builders of information systems, CCOW was founded in December 1996 and based upon preliminary work from Duke University Medical Center and IDX Systems Corporation. The group focuses on the collaboration among visual (GUI-based) applications on a clinical workstation. Its principles of using software component technologies and reducing reengineering costs are designed to bring benefits to the industry as rapidly as possible. For more information, including specifications and upcoming meetings, see the CCOW web site at mcis.duke.edu. --30--CSD/ch* CONTACT: Duke University Medical Center, Durham Trisha Coleman, 919/286-4590; 919/286-3115 (fax) KEYWORD: NORTH CAROLINA GEORGIA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: MEDICINE