Application of HL7 in a Collaborative Healthcare Information System

Author

Cheng, P.H. ; Yang, C.H. ; Chen, H.S. ; Chen, S.J. ; Lai, J.S.

Author_Institution

Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering and Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; Information Systems Office, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei,

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

1-5 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

3354

Lastpage

3357

Abstract

This paper presents our application of Health Level Seven (HL7) standard in a collaborative healthcare information system (HIS). Originally, we have used HL7 message events to flow among HIS systems. Later on, we found that the message interface management become a nightmare for system engineers. Recently, we extract the spirit of HL7 standard to create an alterative HL7 usage over the web services, and reorganize our traditional programmer team into a software collaborative team (SCT) to manage the project schedules effectively. Gradually, this new methodology had already been accepted by most of our system engineers. Moreover, the application of this methodology at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) has shown that it can decrease the HIS system development cost.

Keywords

HL7; Healthcare information system; web services; Collaboration; Collaborative software; Data mining; Engineering management; Information systems; Management information systems; Medical services; Software standards; Systems engineering and theory; Web services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2004. IEMBS '04. 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8439-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2004.1403942

Filename

1403942