Data logistics as a means of integration in healthcare applications

Abstract

Information integration is still a crucial issue in healthcare applications. Most clinical applications are determined by a huge variety of heterogeneous and independent work places, most of them equipped with specialized clinical hardware. Due to this it is almost impossible -at least not feasible -to run a common database system storing all relevant data of a clinical application. Nevertheless these clinical applications have to share their data. Our solution to this integration problem is to facilitate so called Process based Data Logistics. This approach is based on the integration capabilities of process management; however it does not coordinate the staff working in the healthcare domain in a restricting sense, but coordinates data sources and data sinks of these applications.

System Interoperability Study for Healthcare Information System with Web Services

“…Based on open standards, the Web services technology allows any piece of software to communicate with each other in a standardised XML messaging systems [8,19,12] . It solves and eliminates above issues of DCOM/CORBA [12,20] .…”

“…Interoperability concerns also rise as one of the most urgent priorities of healthcare information systems [11,12] . Connecting for health, as a single IT provider for the NHS defined the interoperability issue 'it is impossible for different healthcare information systems to smoothly, seamlessly, privately communicate information when it is needed to where it is needed' [1] .…”

“…Connecting for health, as a single IT provider for the NHS defined the interoperability issue 'it is impossible for different healthcare information systems to smoothly, seamlessly, privately communicate information when it is needed to where it is needed' [1] . Most clinical applications are determined by a huge variety of heterogeneous and independent work places, most of them equipped with specialised clinical hardware [12] . Usually, different parts of a large-scale telemedicine system might be from various vendors, who use different standards and information formats, such as, National Program for IT (NpfIT) [13] .…”

DaltOn: An Infrastructure for Scientific Data Management

“…As described in several publications [5] [9] we pursue a special approach to workflow (process) management in medical and scientific applications which is called Data Logistics (DaLo). This approach supports a very flexible execution of workflows as compared to the traditional way of prescribed workflow execution in conventional workflow management systems [8].…”

“…We consider a process-based information system to be the ideal candidate for such incorporation. We call this approach Data Logistics (DaLo, [9]) and summarize it in Section 2. Section 3 presents the framework responsible for the data management issues within the DaLo, named DaltOn, and emphasizes all execution aspects on a concrete micrometeorology example.…”