The value of a physicians and other care providers’ time is increasing important. As these care providers use computer-based
information systems throughout the day, they are required to access applications running on different systems, repeatedly
performing such mundane steps as logging on and selecting a patient in each application. These steps often become significant
barriers to use, and, at a minimum, disrupt users’ thinking about the clinical tasks they want to perform.
Carefx Fusion Context Manager* coordinates different healthcare applications on a workstation to create a user-driven,
patient-centered information workspace. By leveraging the Health Level Seven (HL7) Context Management Architecture
(“CCOW”), Fusion Context Manager can significantly reduce the time required for clinicians to access applications and data
thereby improving the end-user experience and user productivity. Additionally, because of the security architecture of the
CCOW standard, users no longer need to remember usernames and passwords, thereby improving the overall security of the
organization.
Finally, since Fusion Context Manager can manage fat client, Web-, and Citrix-based applications simultaneously on a given
client desktop, it satisfies the broad healthcare market, where institutions have many different applications, platforms and
suppliers.
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Product Benefits
With Carefx Fusion Context Manager*, you can:
- CCOW-compliance - Ensure interoperability with CCOW enabled applications and support of all of the standard’s context management capabilities.
- Endorsements - Several, multi-national healthcare information technology vendors have chosen Fusion Context Manager as their preferred context management solution.
- Security & HIPAA support - A standard-based “chain of trust” between applications and Fusion Context
- Manager, digital signatures, and the use of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and HTTPS provide protection against external threats such as “spoofing”.
- Scalability & High Availability - Total Cost of Ownership is reduced through Fusion Context Manager’s highly scalable product architecture
- FCM runs on a wide range of server platforms, application servers and databases allowing our products to “fit” into the IT infrastructure.
- FCM supports horizontal and vertical scaling to match growth of resource load, improving cost effectiveness.
- FCM provides a simple fail-over strategy that provides high availability with off-the-shelf components.
- Optional high availability/fail-soft operation
- Open system - Fusion Context Manager supports a wide-variety of software and hardware platforms, allowing organizations to choose the most appropriate technology for their environment.
- Integrated identity store/authentication – Where the competition requires a separate identity store for authentication to the context manager, our offering leverages the identity store that is consistent with your single sign-on vendor of choice and your existing identity store and authentication repository.
- Better performance – The combined single sign-on and context management offering provides better performance for:
- Quicker access to applications and data via improved single sign-on performance
- Time required for applications to join the context
- Quicker initial user authentication.
- FCM servers are peers, eliminating potential bottlenecks.
- In Citrix/WTS-based deployments, FCM does not require any code on the end-user computer, thus minimizing installation challenges.
- Reduced installation costs – Installation of the Context Manager can be on existing hardware
- Unix/X-windows application support
System Requirements
For optimal performance, Carefx Fusion Context Manager* has the following recommended system requirements:
- Server
- A server-class PC with two-way Pentium* III 1.4 GHz w/512K Cache or higher processors
- 2 GB of RAM
- 2 - 36 GB SCSI Hard Drive
- Windows 2000 Server
- One or more network boards
- A bootable CD drive
- A USB or PS/2* mouse
- Workstations
- Windows 98/NT/2000/XP
- Citrix/Windows Terminal Services, Win32, and X-Windows
- Internet Explorer for Web-based CCOW
Additional Information
- Carefx Fusion Context Manager* Administrator Guide
- Carefx Fusion User Channel* Administrator Guide
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