title: Realization of real-time clinical data integration using advanced database technology.
abstract: As information & communication technologies have advanced, interest in mobile health care systems has grown. In order to obtain information seamlessly from distributed and fragmented clinical data from heterogeneous institutions, we need solutions that integrate data. In this article, we introduce a method for information integration based on real-time message communication using trigger and advanced database technologies. Messages were devised to conform to HL7, a standard for electronic data exchange in healthcare environments. The HL7 based system provides us with an integrated environment in which we are able to manage the complexities of medical data. We developed this message communication interface to generate and parse HL7 messages automatically from the database point of view. We discuss how easily real time data exchange is performed in the clinical information system, given the requirement for minimum loading of the database system.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Korea.
authors.forename: Sooyoung
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yoo
authors.forename: Boyoung
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Heekyong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Jinwook
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Jonghoon
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chun
mesh_terms: D002984:Clinical Laboratory Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000592:standards; D003199:Computer Systems; D003628:Database Management Systems; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000379:methods*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000458:organization & administration; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration