| Hardware (Servers) | Main OLTP Hardware Platforms:
HP Integrity, IBM pSeries, Oracle/Sun SPARC
Other OLTP Hardware Platforms:
Intel x64 based servers |
| Hardware (Clients) | Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4 GHz or greater |
| Hand Held Devices | Tablet PCs, iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad |
| Operating System (Servers) | Main OLTP Operating System Platforms:
HP HP-UX, IBM AIX, Oracle Solaris
Other OLTP Operating System Platforms:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, HP OpenVMS |
| Operating System (Clients) | Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 |
| High Availability | OLTP Database failover cluster using operating system compatible clustering products including:
HP Serviceguard, IBM PowerHA, Veritas Cluster Server |
| Disaster Recovery | Recovery via alternate site servers with data replication to separate storage units via one or more of the following:
Built-in OLTP database replication (asynchronous)
SAN replication (synchronous or asynchronous)
Logical Volume Manager mirroring (synchronous) |
| Network | TCP/IP, Ethernet, Wireless |
| Bandwidth Requirements | 10 - 15 Kbps per User |
| Programming Language | C#, C++, Cache ObjectScript, HTML, Javascript, Visual Basic, XAML |
| Software Release Methodology (Major) | Approximately once per year |
| Software Release Methodology (Minor) | As needed |
| Single Logon | Yes |
| Database | OLTP Database:
InterSystems Caché
OLAP Database:
Microsoft SQL Server, or Oracle |
| Query Language | Epic Reporting Tools, Commercial SQL Reporting Products |
| Interfaces | HL7, Web Services, Custom |
| Bar Coding | Can print 1-D & 2-D barcodes for lab requisitions. |
| Image Capability | Low volume scanning (<150 documents/FTE/day): Stored in Epic using Blobserver, TWAIN-based scanning.
Higher volumes: Integration with 3rd party DMS (eg. OnBase), Interfaces to PACS |
| Voice Recognition | Dragon Medical, Dragon Naturally Speaking |
| Web Enabled | Yes |
| Thin Client Enabled | Citrix XenApp, Microsoft Remote App |
| CCOW Compliant | Yes: User, Patient, and Encounter Contexts |
| n-Tiered | Multi-tier (three to five). Optional application servers, presentation servers, analytical reporting servers and communication proxy servers. |