Title :
Tool-assisted healthcare knowledge to HL7 message translation
Author :
Jayaratna, Priya ; Sartipi, Kamran
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Software, McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON
Abstract :
In the new network-centric healthcare IT environment, standardization of information representation, organization and dissemination is the first step towards achieving semantic interoperability among heterogeneous systems. In this paper, we discuss roadblocks encountered in a real-world project to integrate two disparate healthcare systems based on HL7 v3 standards. We propose a tool-assisted approach to support standardcompliant message workflow design and lay the foundation for a new tool to support our approach.
Keywords :
biomedical communication; data structures; health care; information dissemination; medical administrative data processing; open systems; HL7 message translation; healthcare systems; heterogeneous system semantic interoperability; network centric healthcare IT environment; standardised information dissemination; standardised information organization; standardised information representation; tool assisted healthcare knowledge; Computer networks; DICOM; Guidelines; Information representation; Medical services; Open source software; Software tools; Standardization; Standards development; Terminology;
Conference_Titel :
Complex Medical Engineering, 2009. CME. ICME International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tempe, AZ
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3315-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3316-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICCME.2009.4906662
