A Scalable Multi-tier Architecture for the National Taiwan University Hospital Information System based on HL7 Standard

Author

Yang, T.H. ; Cheng, P.H. ; Yang, C.H. ; Lai, F. ; Chen, C.L. ; Lee, H.H. ; Hsu, K.P. ; Chen, C.H. ; Tan, C.T. ; Sun, Y.S.

Author_Institution

Coll. of Medicine, Nat. Taiwan Univ. Hosp., Taipei

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0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

99

Lastpage

104

Abstract

This article describes the successful experiences of National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) in moving from IBM Mainframe to connected networking computer systems. We use multi-tier architecture and HL7 standard to implement our new outpatient hospital information system (HIS). The NTUH HIS is a complex environment with several operating systems, databases, and information systems. We adopt service-oriented architecture (SOA) to reduce the complex relations between systems and solve data consistency problems among databases. We also show that the distributed architecture can provide us stable and reasonable system performances. Our main contribution is proving that the distributed environment with HL7 standard and SOA can sustain in a highly demanding environment

Keywords

computer architecture; computer networks; medical information systems; HL7 standard; National Taiwan University Hospital information system; connected networking computer systems; multitier architecture; outpatient hospital information system; service-oriented architecture; Computer architecture; Computer science; Databases; Hospitals; Information systems; Personal communication networks; Radiology; Service oriented architecture; Simple object access protocol; Sun;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2006. CBMS 2006. 19th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Salt Lake City, UT

ISSN

1063-7125

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2517-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CBMS.2006.27

Filename

1647553