Baylor contracted with a company called Healtheon, which provides health industry-specific portal frameworks. Healtheon security is great and it's tailored to a physician. For example, it provides certain controls such that if a physician does log into the WebTop and doesn't touch his PC within X amount of time, the Webtop will self log out. Physicians are busy, but we don't want the patient's data to be available to just anyone walking by. That kind of feature set was very important to us.
Storage is a consideration.
Hayward says the WebTop is not looking to provide physicians with patient histories. As a result, we're planning on having these documents expire after a certain amount of time. A physician wants to see all the clinical documents from an inpatient stay, while the patient is still an inpatient. Our goal is not for this to be a historical clinical document. It's to streamline the process.