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: ikkim@knu.ac.kr
Il Kon Kim, Kyungpook National University, 1370 Sankyuk-dong Puk-ku, Daegu, Republic of Korea, +82-53-422-8182, +82-53-422-8183, ikkim@knu.ac.kr
Yun Sik Kwak, Min Ji Kim, Hangchan Kim, Sun Chil Kim, Yong Ae Kwon, Chang Dae Jun, Kyungpook National University Hospital
HL7 Message Server for Devices of Pulmonary Function Tests
research
20 minutes
VMAX(pulmonary vital capacity measuring device), Blood Gas Analyzer, and Body Box(pulmonary compliance computing device) for pulmonary function tests are not usually interfaced with Hospital Information Systems(HIS), thus physicians test orders have been manually entered into those devices and the integrated test reports have been generated manually. This creates an inconvenience in hospitals where the HIS is implemented.
To connect these discrete systems we have done two-case studies by using HL7 V2.4 based messaging toolkit developed by our laboratory, HIT V0.9; and caAdapter, HL7 V3.0 tool developed by NCICB. This server supports communications between physicians and laboratory technologists about test orders and its results through HIS. It's first necessary step to achieve seamless integration of components to build EHR (Electronic Health Record) and e-Health Systems.
VMAX(pulmonary vital capacity measuring device), Blood Gas Analyzer, and Body Box(pulmonary compliance computing device) are used for pulmonary function tests. These devices are not usually interfaced with Hospital Information Systems(HIS), thus physicians test orders have been manually entered into those devices and the integrated test reports have been generated manually. This creates an inconvenience in hospitals where the HIS is implemented.
To connect these discrete systems we have done two-case studies by using HL7 V2.4 based messaging toolkit developed by our laboratory, HIT V0.9; and caAdapter, HL7 V3.0 tool developed by NCICB. Although VMAX generates HL7 V2.3 message files, output from Blood Gas Analyzer is on ASTM standards and Body Box with Disk Operating System outputs just text files. It's very cumbersome to write programs for parsing three distinctly different files plus order communications. Also it has been an issue to make direct connections of devices to the central data base of HIS. We designed and implemented a Messaging Server for connecting these devices. This server supports communications between physicians and laboratory technologists about test orders and its results through HIS.
It contributes to encourage complex domain servers' componentization which is very valuable concept for considering dynamic requirements. Also it's first necessary step to achieve seamless integration of components to build EHR (Electronic Health Record) and e-Health Systems.