A Novel Method for Capturing Healthy Image Data in Hospital Legacy Systems

In hospitals, there are usually many legacy equipments and software systems, which may not provide standard interface for integration or even do not have its own API for outside accessing. This makes it very hard to integrate those legacy systems with health information system. It becomes a big challenge for health information integration if you want to provide a total Health Information System for hospitals. To solve this problem, this paper designs an effect and flexible health images data capture methods and apply it in certain hospitals. It uses windows Hook API to capture the output data or system operation behavior and submit to health information system. Finally, they can be renewed by a special algorithm developed by us.