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I'm posting this for a future colleague who doesn't have net access,
but has a specific need right now for information on workstation
technology for a national group of quality of care researchers in
the VA system.  I was very suprised to hear that the Duke area has
a rather uninformed/unimpressed idea of NeXT primarily to generally
poor support either from NeXT or their CC.  Anyway here goes:

The VA Quality Management Institute located in Durham, North Carolina has
VA-wide responsibility for identifying, developing, and testing information
management approaches that facilitate the imporvement in quality of care
for patients served by the VA healthcare system.  To achieve this goal, the
Institute must establish an efficient and systematic communications
network with workgroups and individuals inside and outside the VA system.

There is a need for a quality management database that integrates the data
(lab, pharmacy, radiology, demographic, and specialty oriented data)
collected in the VA's hospital information system with customer need,
severity of illness, system support, process, and outcome measures
collected off the VA's [VAX-based] HIS (Hospital Information System).

Frontline staff, care teams, quality management professionals, and top
management must be able to care given, care occuring, and care that could
be provided using agreed-upon, realistic, and objective measures and
standards.  All staff should have the opportunity to identify statistical
norms and variations from these norms.  Individual staff and teams should
have access to ad hoc and routine reports that present quantitative data
in a visually understandable fashion and that potentiates the initiation
of action for care improvement.

What specific, objective opinions do NeXT users have of the applicability
of a NeXT workstation for:  1) communication, 2) workgroup productivity,
3) creation of a seamless, very user friendly interface between the HIS
[Hospital Information System], data collection instruments, an integrated
database management system, analytical tools, and report generation
capabilities.

Charles O Beauchamp, MD PhD
Director, VA Quality Management Institute
Department of Veterans Affairs
Medical Center
508 Fulton Street
Durham NC 27705

Any replies to my box will be forwarded down to Durham.  If this group
bites on NeXT, I'll be happy as a clam, because then I can have NeXT's
at home as well as work.

Peace
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