- The Brazilian National Health Care System treats about 1.2 million inpatients and 100 million outpatients per month, providing everything from immunization to heart transplants.
- Complex, diverse computing systems that can effectively exchange huge amounts of patient data are a central requirement of a seamless health care system
- One of the main goals of the BNHCP was to avoid vendor lock-in or proprietary technology.
- Two technologies -- Java technology and the XML data format -- were chosen to achieve this goal.
- The nature of the project called for multiple vendors and system integrators to implement the system, and it was necessary to ease integration without hampering the different implementations.
- XML, Java technology, and HTTP were used as the "glue" to bring these diverse implementations together relatively quickly.
This is Dave Edstrom's personal blog called Photons and Electrons. This blog is about technology, as well as some of my personal interests. I am the CEO/CTO of Virtual Photons Electrons. I was the CTO for MEMEX for three years, the President and Chairman of the Board for the MTConnect Institute from May 2010 to January 2014 and prior to that I spent 23 years at Sun Microsystems.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Brazil's National Health Care System
Brazil is an amazing country. I would love to visit there some time to learn how they can be so forward thinking and progressive. Here are some interesting statistics about Brazil and Health Care System:
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