A Service-Oriented Healthcare Message Alerting Architecture in an Asia Medical Center: A Case Study

Po-Hsun Cheng, Feipei Lai and Jin-Shin Lai
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Po-Hsun Cheng: Department of Software Engineering, National Kaohsiung Normal University, No. 62, Shenjhong Road, Yanchao Township, Kaohsiung County, 82444, Taiwan
Feipei Lai: Superintendent Office, National Taiwan University Hospital, No. 7, Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei, 10002, Taiwan
Jin-Shin Lai: Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, No. 7, Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei, 10051, Taiwan

IJERPH, 2009, vol. 6, issue 6, 1-12

Abstract: This paper illustrates how our development team has used some information technologies to let physicians obtain an instant abnormal laboratory result report for critical patient care services. We have implementeda healthcare message alerting system (HMAS) on a healthcare short message service (HSMS) engine and the distributed healthcare-oriented service environment (DiHOSE) in the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH). The HSMS engine has a general interface for all applications which could easily send any kind of alerting messages. Fundamentally, the DiHOSE uses HL7 standard formats to process the information exchange behaviors and can be flexibly extended for reasonable user requirements. The disease surveillance subsystem is an integral part of NTUH new hospital information system which is based on DiHOSE and the disease surveillance subsystem would send alerting messages through the HSMS engine. The latest cell phone message alerting subsystem, a case study, in NTUH proved that the DiHOSE could integrate the user required functions without much work. We concluded that both HSMS and DiHOSE can generalize and extend application demands efficiently.

Keywords: alert; disease surveillance; health information system; information technology; patient safety; service-oriented architecture; short message service (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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