title: The use of personal information webs: convergence of enterprise information sources at the point of care
abstract: Scott and White is the largest integrated healthcare delivery system in the Southwest. The rapid and continual expansion of readily available patient-related computerized information from multiple sources and systems within our enterprise over the last ten years has now enabled our development of a user-friendly, yet secure, access module to meet our clinicians' point-of-care information needs. We have developed and begun implementation of these individualized "Personal Information Webs". Each clinician is provided, with rigorous security and confidentiality measures built in, a personal web portal to our enterprise intranet. This page has predetermined navigational parameters and functionalities that are based on a rigorous role-based user security profile model. The portal provides its owner bi-directional communication with our back-end enterprise business and clinical information resources by communicating with them at a "virtual XML document" level, using a personal information broker/server as an intermediary.
authors.affiliation: Scott and White Memorial Hospital, Temple, TX.
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Culp
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Myers
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Miller