Recent AFHIL Innovations for Public Healthcare

1. Recent AFHIL Innovations for Public Healthcare Sandbox Virtualization � Creation of virtualized, rapidly-deployed, development and testing platforms (Platform as a Service) unique to federal health agency needs Mobility � Two proof-of-concepts centered on better patient engagement in care through the use of personal mobile devices (phones/tablets) � one allowing patients to view/schedule appointments with their federal health clinical providers, and the other allowing patients to conduct real-time �safety checks� of over-the-counter medication against a person�s electronic health record information Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN) � Proof-of-concept prototypes demonstrating clinical scenarios where federal health agencies and private care providers share information for better patient-centered medication reconciliation Real Time Location System � Proof-of-concept Real Time Location System (RTLS) solution for hospitals based on RFID and IR technologies Service Enablement of Legacy Systems � Creation of service-oriented architecture (SOA) �wrappers� for legacy federal health technology systems that enables them to participate in evolving, modernized environments Portal/Portlet Framework � Creation of a comment visual/mid-tier framework for rapidly modernizing legacy federal health technology systems using industry standard, non-proprietary languages