Clinical communication among health providers and systems using Web tools.

Three needs have driven the development of a Web front end to our legacy system. 1) A Web Intranet is needed to provide service for the quantity and diversity of platforms within our health care system. 2) Information transfer in our system is required in more than one format: in viewer-friendly, HTML format and in a database-friendly, down-loadable format. 3) The system encounters the need to electronically exchange information with providers that are not employees of our health care enterprise. This presents a problem with the authentication aspect of security for which we have devised a system to allow the carefully-monitored exchange of records with care providers who are "strangers" to our system.