We work with international standards organizations such as HL7, OMG, NCPDP, HITSP, LOINC, IHTSDO and X12 on defining healthcare data standards for message transmission and interoperability.
International healthcare organizations in the U. K., Australia and Europe took an interest in the data models being built in the USA. We are currently working on a effort to further progress in clinical terminology with SNOMED-CT for the Veterans Health Administration. Standardized terminology is foundational to being able to communicate medical information. The ability to communicate medical data between different healthcare organizations with ease is referred to as interoperability.
Once data standards are in place and models have been designed,, the actual HIT software as well as XML and databases can be generated directly from the UML models in Java or in C. We are a founding member of the Open Health Tools Initiative (OHT). This is a non-profit group which is establishing a repository of healthcare related open source software. Such a repository can make the implementation process more affordable. Only with dedicated international cooperation will this be possible in the future.
We have also worked extensively in other industries such as defense for The Department of Defense (Dod), Strategic Air Command (SAC), weapon systems, logistics, Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) systems, budgeting systems, financial systems, as well as several Navy ship parts systems, ship refit tracking, army troop mobilization, satellite communications, and submarine sonar array systems.