John DeStefano, MBA, RPh

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John DeStefano, MBA, RPh Software Engineering
Manager Chief Integration Architect
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Hartford Hospital Today

• Founded 1854
• Member Hartford Healthcare Corp.
• One of New England's largest teaching Hospitals
  and Tertiary Care Centers
• Has been named in the Top 100 Hospitals
  multiple times
• Most Wired

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Mission

• To offer comprehensive services in an
  environment where innovation and teaching are
  integral to care where we are proud to serve
  patients and one another where meeting the
  challenge of complex medical needs is viewed as a
  defining competency and where quality and safety
  of care are a constant.

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Hartford Healthcare Corp.

• Hartford Healthcare is Hartford Hospital's
  regional care network. It includes Hartford
  Hospital and two other general acute-care
  hospitals MidState Medical Center in Meriden and
  Windam Hospital in Willimantic. In addition, it
  includes a variety of other regional healthcare
  providers.
• Hartford Healthcare members provide a wide range
  of medical and health services, but have one goal
  in common excellence. They work together to
  provide patients and their families with
  efficient, appropriate care of the highest
  quality.

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Information Technology

• Best of breed approach
• Large integration infrastructure (more than 400
  different systems)
• Sun JCAPS
• Many homegrown applications

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Use of Open Source Technology

• JBoss
• Seam
• Portal
• Glassfish
• JCAPS
• OpenESB
• MySQL
• Postgres
• Alfresco
• Subversion
• Linux (Redhat, SUSE, Ubuntu)

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Virtual Care Community

• Project started in 2008
• Connect all Hartford Healthcare affiliates to
  provide a seamless environment of care (our
  family)
• Connect all interested providers in central and
  eastern Connecticut (our friends)

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Virtual Care Community
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Health Information Exchange

• Stared prototype development in 2008
• Many compliance issues
• Currently working with Misys Open Source on
  governance and technical infrastructure

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Our Involvement in OHT

• Contributor to the IHE Profile server components
• Demonstration site

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Questions
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