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We’ve met with many healthcare providers who have asked us about our Service Oriented Architecture and middleware solutions, specifically for the healthcare sector. In talking to these customers about the problems they face, we see a recurring theme: healthcare information is complex and scattered across multiple siloed data sources. These data sources include relational databases, flat files, XML and proprietary applications accessed via web services. Providing a single view of all these data sources requires more than just deploying a middleware SOA solution.
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Dr. Halamka, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, gave the visionary keynote on Wednesday at the Red Hat Summit, where over 1,000 Red Hat customers, partners and employees have gathered at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. Dr. Halamka, an avid Red Hat user in the data center, spoke around two major themes in healthcare. First, he discussed how open standards in healthcare such as those led by the American Health Information Community will serve as a catalyst for improving the quality of care and efficiency in the U.S. Second, personalized medicine based on individualized analysis of genomic data will be used to diagnose and treat patients in a fundamentally different way. Open source is a key enabler for these changes: driving innovation, lowering cost and providing the basic infrastructure necessary for these trends to become a reality.
Midland Memorial Hospital, a 400-bed hospital in Midland, TX, uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Medsphere to provide a complete, robust electronic medical record solution. Medsphere provides commercial support for the open source VistA EMR system that was originally developed by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Philip Longman wrote a great article about VistA in 2005 that’s well worth a read. Midland Memorial has deployed the Medsphere system on top of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for stability, knowing that Red Hat can be counted on to provide world-class support for the hospital. Since deployment, Midland Memorial has never experienced an unanticipated failure with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. For more information about Red Hat solutions for healthcare, visit us online.
Mr. HISTalk was gracious enough to recently spend some time interviewing Dave Nesvisky about Red Hat and healthcare. Dave talks in detail about the growing adoption we’ve seen of open source solutions in the healthcare industry, as well as how we’ve seen success with more than just Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Dave and the rest of us have been keeping busy with all this interest in Red Hat’s presence in the industry, for more information, see here.
Last week, iHealthBeat posted an 8 minute audio interview discussing the recently announced Open Health Tools consortium. Open source and healthcare has the potential to change the current healthcare IT landscape, enabling healthcare IT vendors to focus on what truly differentiates systems instead of forcing them to invest in developing basic infrastructure. Collaboratively, OHT will focus on developing free, open source healthcare IT infrastructure for use by anyone.
LinuxInsider recently published a case study on Florida Hospital and how they’ve used open source software to address challenges around reliability and cost. For more details, read the Red Hat case study of Florida Hospital or visit us online.
Red Hat is pleased to announce that we’re joining the Open Health Tools (OHT) open source community. OHT is working closely with a broad spectrum of healthcare groups, including: major national healthcare providers in areas such as Canada, Australia and the UK; healthcare standards groups like IHTSDO and HL7; healthcare policy groups such as HSSP; and software providers such as Red Hat. OHT’s ultimate goal is to collaboratively build software tooling that will enable the seamless electronic exchange of healthcare data. This is an ambitious goal, but with incremental steps, we think it can be achieved.
The first OHT project is the HL7 tooling project, which will take some of today’s HL7 tooling to the next level.
We are tremendously excited about the potential enhancements that open source can provide to the healthcare industry. Semantic interoperability is a huge challenge, and we believe the only way that we can achieve this goal is through a collaborative, open source development model that brings together all stakeholders.
Health IT has tremendous potential in addressing the major challenges we face in healthcare: improving patient safety and quality of care and managing costs while improving efficiency.
One of the most visible challenges that health IT faces is the question of protecting privacy. If patient privacy cannot be protected, patients will not trust a system with accurate, complete medical information, rendering the system useless.
Properly designed, greater adoption of health IT offers the potential to improve patient privacy. For example, electronic records enable patients to selectively give access to parts of their medical record to specific individuals. Electronic records can also audit access to medical records. Neither of these are practical with paper records.
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Florida Hospital is a huge hospital, with 2,300 beds spread across seven facilities. The Hospital is also highly regarded for the quality of care it provides, having secured accolades from publications such as US News and World Report.
The Florida Hospital IT team has embraced Red Hat solutions to provide a reliable infrastructure for patient information. Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Global File System and Red Hat Cluster Suite, Florida Hospital has built a robust disaster recovery system that is designed to ensure continuous availability of patient data. The team at Florida Hospital runs a wide range of software on the Enterprise Linux servers, including Oracle, Caché, Quovadx and the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. Learn more about the Florida Hospital environment in today’s press release and recently published case study.
The Red Hat healthcare team is back from a tremendously busy HIMSS08. Hundreds of customers stopped by our booth, many of whom were surprised to see us at HIMSS. We had a lot of positive feedback from our customers when we told them about our focus on healthcare, the tremendous adoption by ISVs and the growing momentum behind open source. One technology that generated a particular amount of interest was our MetaMatrix Enterprise Data Services Platform, which can present a single, real-time, read/write view of different data sources. Providers are looking to MetaMatrix to help address challenges around unifying scattered, distributed databases with different data models.
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