Our hope is that by standardizing on XML now, we'll be able to slide more easily into the standards-based XML for health care when that arrives. At the time, Sequoia had one of the only XML databases. And basically, Sequoia was it. Now there are far more to choose from, but at the time, there weren't many options. The organization uses Sequioa's XML Portal Server software.
Documents take the most time.
From that point on, the organization began inventorying the various clinical systems to get a handle on the types of data and information required by the physicians in order to streamline the access once the data was entered into the XML database. There are several hundred involved, and we had to sit down with the doctors and work on prioritizing those. Moving from proof of concept to the pilot stage A small test. By the spring of 1999, Baylor felt ready to do a proof of concept. Then we loaded it up with 10,000 documents, and measured its performance and gauged what it would take to manage.