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MedBiquitous
A Web Services Prescription
The need to link doctors to medical research spurs Web innovation.
As a cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr Peter Greene wanted to be able to stay on top of his specialty online by exchanging the latest on surgical procedures and new research at one site. With that ambition, he helped start CTSnet.org, which brings together 40 societies related to his field into one online community. "My goal was to instantly be able to put my fingers on the latest information from around the world, all with a single sign-on,"says Greene. "We learned that we could share a common server and middleware to help us stay in touch."
Through his experience with CTSnet.org, Greene, the associate dean for emerging technologies at Johns Hopkins University Medical School in Baltimore, saw a greater opportunity. Why not bring together the world's medical societies and allow them to communicate online using a common platform? The problem was that these thousands of sites all ran on different systems and used different software. For the past year, Greene and his colleagues - with help from IBM, Rational Software and Sun - have been working to create core standards that will use Web services to link the associations.
The MedBiquitous Consortium, which now has 23 members including the American Medical Association, is in the process of setting up these standards and is testing applications that will allow doctors to share information about the latest research, education and training opportunities on an unprecedented level. "Health care is a $US1.3 trillion cottage industry, and there are silos of information that will never get unified on common databases,"Greene says. "Web services technology addresses the reality that you'll never join the hardware, but that you can get them speaking over the same platform."
Some applications are already in testing mode. A doctor can log on to her professional society's Web site and look for online continuing education courses related to her medical specialty. The society's site uses Web services to gather course listings from other societies, and the doctor can take one course residing on another society's server without leaving her own society's Web site. With help from CorMed, the consortium's for-profit arm, individual medical societies can now take advantage of applications ranging from membership management (in a similar way to how Life Time Fitness uses Web services) to journal article submissions and online discussion forums.
In the end, the idea is to create a network of communities through which doctors can communicate and keep track of new research and techniques. "We want to make it so doctors don't have to worry about the technology,"says Jon McBride, CTO at CorMed. "They should be able to get real-time information when they need it instead of digging around on dozens of sites."
But given that doctors haven't always been the easiest to convince when it comes to trying new technologies, will they use the new systems? Greene says: "Yes."The main barrier has been convincing doctors that they can save time by using the Internet and other technologies. "Doctors need technology that will help them do their work more efficiently,"he notes. "If you slow them down, they won't use it. We'll get broad adoption if we get the right, usable technology out there."And Web services might just fit the bill.
SIDEBAR: Medbiquitous Consortium
LOCATION: Baltimore.
ANNUAL REVENUE: Nonprofit group initially funded by Johns Hopkins Medicine.
THE BUSINESS: A consortium of medical associations working to build a technology platform - using Web services - that will allow the disparate medical groups to interact online. Two other arms of the project are also moving forward with Web services: an R&D group called MedBiquitous Laboratory is developing new applications; CorMed is a for-profit group that provides technical help to medical societies.
WEB SERVICES APPLICATION: Allows doctors belonging to medical societies around the world to share continuing education and other key data on a Web services platform.
THE PAYOFF: Doctors will be able to log on to their individual society's site and communicate with colleagues around the world, as well as take care of business such as calculating continuing education credits and subscribing to medical journals.
SOFTWARE PARTNERS: IBM, Rational Software, Sun Microsystems.
Sari Kalin contributed to this story.
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