Progress 03/19/01 to 03/18/06

Outputs
The programmers of the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital (VMTH) at UC Davis worked additional web applications required for the hospital information system (HIS), and developed several new foundational tools to assist them in those applications development efforts. Among the tools developed was an interface to a laboratory middleware system, a credit card payment gateway interface, and laboratory diagnostic test definition tools. Additional web applications included several more central services applications, an invoice charge matching application, label printing for pharmacy applications, numerous activity and financial reporting applications, cashiering intake and reconciliation applications, search results display management applications, and expanded point of service (POS) offerings to include off-line services.

Impacts
The new clinical veterinary informatics system developed and managed by the VMTH will streamline clinical activity for VMTHs at veterinary schools/colleges that elect to use the new tools. It will also provide new capabilities for outcomes assessment through computer assisted evaluation tools, new clinical imaging management capabilities through the PACS system, will give clinicians at subscribing institutions the ability to effectively find and share pertinent clinical information, and will provide the ability to assess the comparative value of coded retrieval versus free text retrieval, potentially improving both.

Publications

• No publications reported this period

Progress 01/01/04 to 12/31/04

Outputs
The programmers of the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital (VMTH) at UC Davis worked on specific web applications required for the hospital information system (HIS). Among the applications developed were cashiering and accounts receivable modules, central services dispensation and inventory modules, pharmacy inventory module, purchase order module, financial reporting module, caseload activity reporting module, many point-of-service (service-specific) modules, surgery module, several laboratory results reporting modules, the imaging reports modules, and numerous others. An on-line evaluation system was also introduced, and a PACS (Picture Archival and Communications Standards) system was developed. Additional progress was made on match/unmatch point-of-service applications, the pharmacy dispensation module, accounts payable module, ICU laboratory results entry, and other applications.

Impacts
The new clinical veterinary informatics system developed and managed by the VMTH will streamline clinical activity for VMTHs at veterinary schools/colleges that elect to use the new tools. It will also provide new capabilities for outcomes assessment through computer assisted evaluation tools, new clinical imaging management capabilities through the PACS system, and will give clinicians at subscribing institutions the ability to effectively find and share pertinent clinical information.

Publications

• No publications reported this period

Progress 01/01/03 to 12/31/03

Outputs
The programmers of the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital (VMTH) at UC Davis, concentrated primarily on the creation of generalized applications that facilitate the rapid development of a wide variety of specific web applications required for the hospital information system (HIS). Many of these specific web applications were developed, to include the client, patient and referring veterinarian registration modules, appointment scheduling module, medical records module, search modules, image module and others. Significant progress was made on numerous other modules to include the cashiering and accounts receivable modules, laboratory results reporting modules, imaging reports modules, activity reporting modules and financial reporting modules. In collaboration with the University of Guelph hospital management team, a master procedures list (MPL) was developed, Guelph-specific billing procedures were defined in the medical records and cashiering modules, and they were linked to the MPL. Guelph-specific service lists, clinician lists, species and breed lists and cost centers were developed within the context of the new web applications, and tested within the registration and appointment modules.

Impacts
The new clinical veterinary informatics system developed and managed by the VMTH will streamline clinical activity for veterinary teaching hospitals at veterinary schools/colleges that elect to use the new tools, and it will give clinicians the ability to effectively find and share pertinent clinical information.

Publications

• No publications reported this period

Progress 01/01/02 to 12/31/02

Outputs
The programmers of the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital at UC Davis completed the infrastructure phase of the project during the 2002 calendar year, migrating the hospital information system (HIS) to a new operating system and implementing a new browser. This was essential to enable the reformatting and generalization of existing HIS elements and tools for web access, which is at the crux of the ability to effectively share information. In addition, significant file design, applications design and generic tool development was accomplished as a result of extensive dialogue with, and feedback from, the University of Guelph Veterinary Teaching Hospital management.

Impacts
The new veterinary informatics system at the Veterinary Medicine Teaching Hospital will streamline clinical procedures and allow clinicians the ability to effectively share information.

Publications

• No publications reported this period