Title :
An extensible HL7 middleware for heterogeneous healthcare information exchange
Author :
Lijun Liu ; Qingsong Huang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Kunming Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kunming, China
Abstract :
In this paper, we developed an extensible HL7 middleware to exchange the heterogeneous healthcare information. A semantic structure mapping, which can be configured dynamically, is presented to guide the data conversion of heterogeneous healthcare information. These heterogeneous data can be quickly built or parsed into standard HL7 messages for transmission. This middleware is designed and implemented based on the interface-oriented programming ideas and plug-in mechanism, which can be extended conveniently to accomplish the data exchange between new data format and the existing data format. Experimental results show that the heterogeneous healthcare information can be exchanged and integrated successfully and quickly using this HL7 middleware.
Keywords :
health care; medical information systems; middleware; data conversion; data exchange; data format; extensible HL7 middleware; heterogeneous data; heterogeneous healthcare information exchange; interface oriented programming; plug-in mechanism; semantic structure mapping; healthcare information system; heterogeneous information exchange; hl7; semantic structure mapping;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI), 2012 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chongqing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1183-0
DOI :
10.1109/BMEI.2012.6513196
