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Integration at a Glance
In seeking to create an open system for sharing clinical information,
Kaiser Permanente Southern California has faced issues and found solutions
that may apply to your organization.
Need
To share data between a variety of incompatible clinical data systems without
having to write and maintain custom interfaces between these systems.
To deliver HL7 data over disparate physical networks while providing security
and network management tools that simplify additions to or deletions from
the messaging infrastructure.
To make sure these objectives will meet the needs of a health care provider
with 10 major medical centers and 2.2 million patients over a 10-county
area.
Solution
Adopt the HL7 standard for passing clinical data messages, and require vendors
to assure HL7 compliance.
Implement a DCE network protocol that will be independent of the underlying
physical layer and can be built into servers and application software.
Implement a pilot project to test the messaging infrastructure, and prove
the feasibility of the HL7 environment before attempting to scale it up
to enterprise size.
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