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Journal of Korean Society of Medical Informatics 2001;7(3):1-8.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4258/jksmi.2001.7.3.1    Published online September 30, 2001.
Design and Evaluation of a Prototype HL7 Message Server for Data Sharing across and within Medical Institutions
Soo Young Yoo, Bo Young Kim, Seung Bin Han, Jin Wook Choi, Jae Heon Cheong, Min Kyung Lee, Jong Hoon Chun
1College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Korea.
2School of Computer Science, Seoul National University, Korea.
3Division of Computer Science and Engineering, Myongji University, Korea.
Abstract

This study was performed to develop the basic technique for standardization that will be used in the medical environment. The following paper describes the design and implementation of a software framework that could be used to construct an HL7 message server. HL7 message server is combined with existing HIS and generates the corresponding HL7 messages automatically whenever the predefined events occur. We developed HL7 message server modules which can automatically link patient data to the appropriate message component in order to populate ADT and ORU messages. The key modules are UIT monitor, message generator and TCP/IP connection module. UIT is designed to integrate all data items needed to create a message in this HIS database table. The UIT monitor module checks regularly the occurrences of predefined events in HIS. The message generator module links the UIT data to the appropriate message generating functions to create a message. And the TCP/IP connection module works as a socket module for the stable network connection. The prototype of HL7 message server showed the performance of creating 100 messages in a second. This evaluation result confirmed that our HL7 message server presents a promising model for the incorporation of HL7 standard into existing Korean HIS.

Key Words: HIS, HL7 message server, database, mapping class


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