Tool-assisted healthcare knowledge to HL7 message translation

Author

Jayaratna, Priya ; Sartipi, Kamran

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Software, McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON

fYear

2009

fDate

9-11 April 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCME.2009.4906662

Filename

4906662