Monitoring the Pulse of a Pandemic

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Monitoring the Pulse of a Pandemic | Microsoft Share Point — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:47:25 GMT

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Amalga at El Camino Hospital Helping to Monitor the Status of Swine Flu – everyone can use Virtual Earth for Global Tracking

The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:10:43 GMT

Yesterday I posted about Microsoft Amalga and the New Life Sciences software to be added.  I mention

Are you prepared for a pandemic?

FutureFed — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:43:50 GMT

By Teresa Carlson , Microsoft Vice President of U.S. Federal Government Sales Recently in the media…

re: Monitoring the Pulse of a Pandemic

hlthblog — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:11:39 GMT

Thanks for the cross link to HealthBlog, Teresa. Thanks also for drawing attention to the ways our customers and partners are using information technology to monitor flu and other outbreaks of serious disease, and respond appropriately.

Bill Crounse, MD

re: Monitoring the Pulse of a Pandemic

Paul Henderson — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:34:48 GMT

Looking at this article some months later makes me realise how far behind the curve we are in the UK. 21c recently began to roll-out a Microsoft based solution for managing the UK pandemic as a reactive measure. It is great to see UIS being used in a pro-active way...but our clients in the UK also tell us that they appreciate how quickly solutions can be built using Sharepoint, as we have done.

re: Monitoring the Pulse of a Pandemic

Charles Beauchamp MD, PhD — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:57:20 GMT

Does Amalga have an annotated problem list capability such that it is possible to do "smart annotation" under problems on the problem list that document the set of interventions that are applied per patient for the rx and followup of patients with, for example, flu symptoms? If not, why not. On another Microsoft Blog I argued and got apparent agreement about the importance of an "annotated problem list" capability as has existed in the VA since the late 1980's. And if not it is all the more reason for VA VisTa in it commercial forms (that includes Intersystems Cache and HealthShare functionality) to serve as the grand data integrator in health care. What about this capability? What about the ability to use this capability to look at outcomes based on interventions applied using qualitative and quantitative analysis capabilities? If you do not understand these points you have a very deficient product.

re: Monitoring the Pulse of a Pandemic

hlthblog — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:14:04 GMT

Dr. Ceauchamp,

Thanks for your comment. I am tardy in responding because I wanted to get some facts from my colleagues in our Health Solutions Group (HealthVault and Amalga). The following comes from Sean Nolan, chief software architect:

• The answer depends on which of the “Amalga” products you are asking about.

• Amalga UIS is a data aggregation platform that primarily collects information from multiple transactions systems to provide a unified view of patients and the organization. To the extent that those transactional systems use an “annotated problem list” concept, UIS absolutely can ingest that information and maintain the linkages and metadata from the source system --- in addition to connecting that information with all the other clinical, financial and administrative information about a patient. But problem list data is not generally created in Amalga UIS --- we are not that type of EMR system.

• Amalga HIS is a more traditional transaction application. While it does not use the problem list as the “root” of annotations, there is a capability to link between problems, notes, prescriptions, treatments and so on using a concept that collects all of these together as an “episode of care” --- imagine a pregnancy, or a series of visits (potentially over years) that are focused on lower back pain, or so on. So to that extent, we do create the continuity I think you are calling an “annotated problem list”.

I hope that clarifies your comment. Thanks again for writing.