ClinicStation

ClinicStation was developed by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in response to internal needs for an EMR and several previous failed EMR deployments. It was developed by Dr. Kevin McEnery and Charles Suitor as an expansion of a successful radiology PACS initiative [1]. It was first deployed as a web application in 1999 with about 30 clinical applications. It was rewritten as a [| service-oriented architecture] (SOA) back-end and desktop application in 2007 and today has about 70 clinical applications [2]. The SOA enables ClinicStation to expose more than 40 different data sources (internally developed and commercial software) to clinicians within a single interface [3]. It also enables other M.D. Anderson applications to draw on ClinicStation data, such as the RadStation (for radiology), PathStation (for pathology), ResearchStation (for research) and ClinicStation Outbound (a web portal for patients and outside physicians). ClinicStation has scaled from around 1,500 users in its early stages to over 8,000 today.

1 http://www.imagingeconomics.com/issues/articles/2003-02_01.asp 2 http://www.cwhonors.org/CaseStudy/viewCaseStudy2009.asp?NominationID=135&Username=UTmDa 3 http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=4000000916