Simulating an integration systems: Hospital Information System, Radiology Information System and Picture Archiving and Communication System

The usability of information systems, known as Hospital Information System (HIS), Radiology Information System (RIS), and Picture Archiving and Communication System, for electronic medical records has shown a good impact for actors in the hospital. The objective is to help and make their work easier; such as for a physician to access the patient´s data, for a nurse or administration staff to record the medical records of the patient, and for a patient to check their bill transparently. However, several limitations still exists on such area regarding the type of data being stored in the system, ability for data transfer, storage and protocols to support communication between medical devices and digital images. This paper reports the simulation result of integrating several systems to cope with those limitations by using the DICOM standard. The result was not significantly succeeded in the context of DICOM implementation. However we succeed in documenting the reason of that failure so future research will gain better understanding and able to integrate those systems.