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Session Details
Health Information Portals: Case Studies
Speaker: Joseph GollnerTime: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Date: June 24
Track: Health and Hospital
Experience level: All levels
The experiences of two distinctly different communities to bring their healthcare information online will be explored in these case studies. In one case, the protagonist is a major institution responsible for setting healthcare standards and distributing funding for innovative public health programs. This institution set out to establish a web portal that would provide an integrated view of useful health information for the public. This particular undertaking immediately ran into a tangled web of issues ranging from jurisdictional sensitivities through to the technological challenges of aggregating, into some kind of useful and authoritative view, tens of millions of pages of health information.
In the second case, an independent agency in the pharmaceutical sector determined that it needed to modernize its venerable compendium of pharmaceutical products and to deliver, using the accumulated content and editorial wisdom, a new generation of intelligent drug look-up tools. In this effort, one of the immediate issues encountered was the fact that information suited to print published will not exist in a form suitable for driving intelligent online behavior.
In both of the cases, a number of key lessons emerged that should resonate with everyone interested in applying modern content technologies to the management, improvement and deliver of effective health information as a digitally accessed service. These case studies illustrate, graphically, the types of challenges that need to be addressed and the magnitude of the benefits that can be realized when these challenges are overcome.
