Using the Web Publisher with a Web server, documents and forms can be made available on the Web. The documents are maintained in a database and links can be made to other sites and to other databases. A representative from Lotus will be visiting MCIS to talk about Notes. Notes can be used to send out and collect surveys. It can also tabulate the results.
Notes has applications that can be used for document workflow.
MCIS is considering setting up a guest account on the Lotus Notes server so that people can test it out. Notes can be integrated with FAX machines and pagers. MCIS is developing a Notes application to work with the dictated hospital reports. Notes will work with Word, WordPerfect, Excel and OLE2 programs. The program can be set up to automatically open up in one of the packages mentioned above.