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R Cornet

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PubMed1995

Problems with integrating legacy systems.

The economic and organizational impact of imposing state-of-the-art technology to the large number of proprietary legacy systems operational in most hospitals requires integrated clinical professional workstations to provide flexible encapsulation mechanisms for these systems rather than reengineering these systems to this new technology. In this paper the implications of different input/output and translation models of legacy systems for their integration into a clinical workstation is described. Examples of legacy systems that have been integrated in the HERMES clinical workstation are presented as examples of the range of difficulties one might encounter. The features that an integrated workstation should offer for integrating a broad range of legacy systems are also addressed in this paper.

Computer Systems↗
PubMed1994

HERMES: a health care workstation integration architecture.

An architecture is described that facilitates integration of existing databases and applications without modifying them. By means of this architecture, data from different sources dispersed in a network can be combined and directly used in existing applications or applications that have been developed specially for integration. This feature of combining data from different sources into one workstation is viewed as the enabling technology on which computer-based patient records can be built. The abstraction of computer-, network- and application-specific details is completely dealt with by the integration architecture. This integration architecture has been developed with extendibility and flexibility in mind, and allows for a growth-path towards application of the open system paradigm in medicine.

Computer Communication Networks↗
PubMed1994

A cooperative model for integration in a cardiology outpatient clinic.

With the increasing amount of digitally stored patient information, such as images and findings, the possibility and need arise for a system which is able to both store and display this information in a structured, user-friendly way. In the common situation where different information systems are used within one department, this means that the various information systems have to be integrated. However, integration requires more complex management of data, processes and windows. This management can be handled by a Workspace Manager, which controls inter-application tasks, and interaction with the user. Furthermore, this Workspace Manager supports the user with the definition of complex tasks such as collecting problem-related patient information from the various remote systems. In an outpatient clinic for cardiology this architecture is used to achieve cooperative integration of an open Computer Patient Record with a range of information-specific services.

Ambulatory Care Facilities↗