Given by Ed Lipson, Wojtek Furmanski at SUNY HSC TeleMedicine Conference OnCenter on May 6 1996. Foils prepared May 6 1996
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Summary of Material
This is a joint project between College of Nursing at Syracuse University and NPAC |
With partners including SUNY Health Science Center and Syracuse School District |
This is a Web Technology (using dynamic Oracle and JavaScript Implementation) collaboration and Information resource to help School Nurses |
It includes (effectively) a patient record database |
Outside Index Summary of Material
meeting the needs of children with limited access to healthcare resources |
empowering school nurses to effectively manage children's health on a continual basis |
offering interactive and current health-education resources for school nurses, nurse practitioners, nursing students, school children, and parents |
providing the school district with database resources allowing statistical analysis |
integrating primary care of school children with systems of managed care |
linking healthcare to available social services that address issues of home environment and other factors influencing children's health |
establishing and maintaining strict confidentiality and data security |
Syracuse City School District |
College of Nursing at Syracuse University |
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center (NPAC) at Syracuse University |
Department of Pediatrics at State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse |
community database including Web pages for schools, nurses, nurse practitioners, students, parents, and teachers |
student health record database |
information support for computerized decision making |
educational resources |
access to World Wide Web resources |
based on Distributed Medical Intelligence scheme of the Institute for Interventional Informatics |
"care portals" (school nurse office) |
"bridge" (intelligent switchboard at College of Nursing and NPAC) |
"expert stations" (nurse practitioners and pediatricians) |
student visits school nurse's office complaining of sore throat |
school nurse, using CareWeb technology, conducts focused assessment for sore throat |
information is shared with nurse practitioner at bridge site who then asks school nurse to obtain throat culture |
assessment data, medical diagnosis, and treatment plan are recorded in student electronic health record |
Netscape 2 Web browser |
Oracle database |
WOW/OWA (Oracle Web Agent) Internet gateway |
PL/SQL dynamic Web page generation |
multiframe Java/JavaScript graphical user interface |
hierarchical navigation model on top of relational database |
uses pervasive, revolutionary Web technologies |
includes video conferencing capability |
allows video interface for medical instruments such as otoscopes |
includes interface capability for devices for disabled individuals (communication, wheelchair control, computer control, virtual reality, etc.) including mainstreamed students |
enables rapid prototyping and deployment |
offers reusable, scalable, and extensible technologies |
offers improved health outcomes at lower cost |
rapid progress of this project is based on excellent collaboration among nursing and medical faculty, scientists, and technologists |