title: Non-invasive light-weight integration engine for building EHR from autonomous distributed systems.
abstract: Pangea-LE is a message oriented light-weight integration engine, allowing concurrent access to clinical information from disperse and heterogeneous data sources. The engine extracts the information and serves it to the requester client applications in a flexible XML format. This XML response message can be formatted on demand by the appropriate XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language) transformation in order to fit client application needs. In this article we present a real use case sample where Pangea-LE collects and generates "on the fly" a structured view of all the patient clinical information available in a healthcare organisation. This information is presented to healthcare professionals in an EHR (Electronic Health Record) viewer Web application with patient search and EHR browsing capabilities. Implantation in a real environment has been a notable success due to the non-invasive method which extremely respects the existing information systems.
authors.affiliation: BET Group, Technical University of Valencia, Spain. pedcremo@fis.upv.es
authors.forename: Pere
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Crespo Molina
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Angulo Fernández
authors.forename: José A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Maldonado Segura
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Moner Cano
authors.forename: Montserrat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Robles Viejo
mesh_terms: D022126:Access to Information; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013030:Spain; D018511:Systems Integration