Information Infrastructure For Healthcare (October 1994)

Patient-Oriented Management System (POMS): An Integration Infrastructure for Health Care

Sponsor: Benchmarking Partners (formerly Surgency)

• Project Performance Period: 12/15/1994 - 12/14/1997
• Total project (est.): $4,872,000.00
• Requested ATP funds: $2,000,000.00

A central problem for the healthcare information infrastructure is the need to work with a wide variety of existing patient-care information systems, generally incompatible with each other, which have been created independently to serve the needs of various healthcare domains. The POMS project attempts to meet this need by developing a standard framework--a reference model--that defines the necessary communication of administrative and healthcare information between domain-specific applications, such as a clinical management tool or cost management system. Independent application vendors will be able to use the reference model, prototype implementations, and implementation tools (also developed as part of the POMS project) to incorporate the model into their applications. Healthcare administrators will be able to choose from among a variety of model-compliant applications to build the integrated system that best meets their needs. In addition to researching and developing the reference model, the heart of the project, the POMS effort also will establish a validation laboratory to test and certify applications for compliance with the model, and set up an industry-wide advisory panel of customers and application vendors to guide the future development of the model and ensure that it remains attuned to industry needs.

For project information:

Joan C. Jerome-Conne, (617) 225-7800
benchmarking@delphi.com

ATP Project Manager

Barbara Cuthill, (301) 975-3273
barbara.cuthill@nist.gov