MITEM Builds First Enterprise-Class
Application with Macromedia
Flash MX Professional
Innovative healthcare solution
delivers rich user experience not previously available
in a mission critical, Web-based application
MENLO PARK, CA – September 2, 2003 - MITEM Corporation, a developer
of integration software and business applications, is leading the way
in developing robust, real-time applications with Macromedia Flash MX
Professional. MITEM's developers have taken full advantage of Flash
technology to create a rich, Web-based application for the healthcare
market.
This application, called Blue Iris, enhances, extends and integrates
existing hospital information systems. Blue Iris pulls critical patient
data such as lab results, medications, images and dictated voice recordings
from backend systems and delivers them directly to the desktop or to
any mobile computing device. Blue Iris presents all of this critical
data in a single-view, Web-based application that mirrors the natural
workflow of clinicians.
“In our product plan we set some very important workflow criteria
and user interface standards for Blue Iris. It was critical that the
Blue Iris user interface (UI) compliment the natural workflow of clinicians
in a hospital environment. If we missed this mark, the application would
never gain acceptance. It was immediately apparent that an HTML approach
could not deliver the rich user experience or the workflow features
we required. In addition, Blue Iris had to be accessible from many different
device types and from remote locations; only Flash met all of these
requirements,” commented Andy Nelson, director of products for
MITEM.
Performance was also an important issue since Blue Iris integrates
data from multiple back-end systems. The Flash UI allows a clinician
to begin interacting with the system while data is still being retrieved
from various hospital information system modules (e.g. laboratory, pharmacy,
radiology, patient accounting) and other systems such as medical imaging.
With a traditional HTML interface, the user would have to wait for the
entire process of retrieving, updating and rendering of all data to
be completed before any interaction could begin.
“Blue Iris represents a pioneering use of Macromedia Flash to
a build a true enterprise-class application,” said Lucian Beebe,
senior product manager, Macromedia. “We think the rich user experience
MITEM has created using Flash MX will influence an entirely new segment
of developers to choose this method for building mission-critical applications.”
Nelson added, “We are extremely pleased to see the addition of
features like forms-based programming to the development environment
in Flash MX Professional 2004. This feature alone will create greater
efficiencies in the development process as we begin to build new end-to-end,
integrated applications for our other key vertical markets.”
“Macromedia has begun to increase its addressable market with
a stream of new products and enabling technologies. Blue Iris demonstrates
how Macromedia’s latest technology stack can be used to develop
a new class of main-stream, Web-based commercial applications,”
commented Ed Bierdeman, a top-rated financial analyst on Macromedia
and senior vice president for Moors & Cabot, Inc.
Contact:
MITEM Corporation
Andy Nelson
650.323.1500
pr@mitem.com
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