Silverlight for Electronic Medical Records on the Horizon?

In my opinion, the answer is yes. Yesterday I attended the SQL 2008 Server Launch in Anaheim, California. The attendance at the event was a pretty big crowd. I don't actively write much any longer, but attend to keep current on new technologies that also helps me advise with the integration processes and hardware suggestions today.

Silverlight is progressing right along since the last event I had attended. When you stop and think about what platform makes sense for medical records, a web based application makes sense in today's world. SQL Server 2008 has many new features and advancements, including Intellisense (which will only make sense here to any coder reading this article), security, and the ability to utilize the new LINQ data binding language. The demonstration yesterday was highlighted by one of the Silverlight team members doing some real time demonstrations to incorporate both Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation in to the process.

There are some sample applications on the Silverlight web site that also incorporate inking and I can't help but think this is going to evolve sooner with being able to link to SQL Server. Silverlight can work with all WPF applications. Managing SQL Server 2008 by policies really looks to be one big enhancement not only for IT but security as well and it also has Powershell management, just as does Server 2008. Business Intelligence integration is also built right in, along with the ability to connect and unlock data from CRM software, not only MS Dynamics, but also Oracle and Siebel.

As a participant I received my copy of Visual Studio which has been installed so I can work around a bit to get the feel for working with LINQ for data binding. Lynn Langit, one of the presenters was fabulous and speaks down to earth "code talk". I had a short opportunity to chat with her afterwards and found out she had even written a couple UMPC programs a while back, so her interest is right up there with mobility and tablets.

You can find some case studies here, including the Vanderbilt University Project which I posted a couple weeks ago.

Make sure you have Silverlight installed and try this link to ink a Google search with inking...or try this project and imagine these are portions of an electronic medical records that you can move around for research and reference and bring in images and create a simple stack of information by dragging and dropping.....and you can sign in with a Windows Live ID as well..