Message communication server for Medical Information Systems’ interoperability

The implementation of a message communication server (MCS) for facing the syntactic interoperability problem in medical communications is the main target of this work. The background of this implementation was a set of recommendations for the types of exchanged messages, general architecture and end-to-end users services, which have been introduced by the authors in. MCSpsilas architecture facilitates different medical information systems to visibly handle real world events and information, without any interference in the basic structure of these systems. The performance of MCS has been tested in three distinct phases employing the application and data store entities of three cooperating medical information systems, a Laboratory Information System (LIS), an Advanced Radiology Information System (RIS) and a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). The evaluation of the developed MCS was also performed and the extracted statistics validated the high degree of MCSpsilas effectiveness and efficiency.