August 24-25, 2006, Cologne, Germany
| International HL7 Interoperability Conference IHIC 2006
August 24-25, 2006, Cologne, Germany |
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To the IHIC 2006 conference program committee
Email: rkchiu@mails.fju.edu.tw
Primary presenter contact information:
Department of Information Management, College of Management, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan.
No.510 Chung-Cheng Road, HsingChuang City, Taipei County, Taiwan
Phone #: 886-2-29052629 or 29052940; E-Mail: rkchiu@mails.fju.edu.tw
Brief biographical description of each presenter:
Dr Ruey-Kei Chiu received his two Master degrees in
computer science from Brigham Young University (1982) and the University of Iowa (1991),
USA, respectively. His PhD degree in management science also received from the University
of Iowa in 1994.
He is currently a professor of the Department of Information
Management, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan and Chair of Health and Medical Informatics Research Group (He&MeIRG),
College of Management, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan. He also served as the director of computer services center for Fu Jen University from 1995 to 2005.
During the last decade, he has been playing the key role of consultancy for Center for Disease (CDC) and some divisions of Department of Health of Taiwan in the implementation of cutting-edge information technologies and information systems
and the adoption of medical informatics standards on disease controls and preventions and national immunization systems.
His research interests are on information and decision support system development, implementation, and assessment in public health informatics and clinic information systems, particularly on the use of cutting-edgy information technologies, such as Web and Internet Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Multi-agent software, Communications and Networking techniques and the adoption of HL7 and relevant Standards.
Additional authors: Kevin Chang, Kuo Chin Tsai, Chia Ching Huang, Kuan Chi Lin, Storm Wang
An implementation for healthcare information delivery systems in adopting health informatics standards and advanced information technologies
research
25 minutes
1. Introduction: research background, motivations and objectives.
2. Investigation and discussion for the standards of medical informatics adopted in this research, including Health Level 7 (HL7), and Clinic Data Architecture (CDA), and Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM).
3. Investigation and discussion for cutting-edge information technologies adopted in this research, including software agents, Web services and technologies, Simple Object Access Protocols, and so forth.
4. System frameworks proposed and designed for this case implementation and study.
5. Discussion and assessment for this innovative implementation, including system effectiveness and interoperability, technologies and standards constraints and limitations.
Abstract: This research paper presents an experimental case implementation for supporting an innovative information interchanging and delivering system by adopting the medical standards including Health Level 7 (HL7), and Clinic Data Architecture (CDA), particularly with the adoption of HL7 v3.0 RIM, and Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) as well as leveraging the use of advanced information technologies including Web services, software agents, and objected-oriented methodologies of system implementation.. The objectives of this case implementation aim to study the effectiveness and constraints for the adoption for current healthcare standards and the use of modern advanced information technologies in the system development, as well as the degree of enhancement for the system interoperability in the healthcare industry. In this research, a multi-agent system framework is also designed as the front-end information interchanging services for a clinic information system in order to be able to carry out multiple information interchange and transmission in different information delivery applications for a medical institution with its communication peers. The delivery of information and data may be for interchanging the patient data in patient referral, for reporting the data of probably and suspected infectious disease cases to CDC of Taiwan, for claiming the insurance fee to National Health Insurance Institute, and so forth. While in this presentation, only the information system for patient data transmission and exchange in patient referral between a central hospital and its clinics is implemented and assessed.
Keywords: HL7 v3.0, Clinic Data Architecture, DICOM, Information Technologies, Web Technologies and Services, Software Agent.