Perspectives on New Information Technologies for VHA

 

 

Prepared for

 

Business Enterprise Solutions and Technologies.

Veterans Health Administration

Department of Veterans Affairs

810 Vermont St. N.W.

Washington, DC.  20420

 

 

Tom Munnecke

Science Applications International Corporation

10260 Campus Point Ct.

San Diego, Ca.  92121

(858) 756 4218

munnecket@saic.com

July 31, 2001

Available at http://www.munnecke.com/papers/D21.doc

 

 

Table of Contents

 

Introduction. 2

1. Inverting Perspective. 3

HailStorm.. 4

Comparison of Hailstorm with original DHCP design concepts. 6

Comments on SOAP, XML, and DHCP Kernel Architectures. 7

Industry Controversy over HailStorm Architecture. 8

Patient Flow vs. Provider Flow.. 9

2.  Health and the Network Effect 10