title: HL7 Middleware Framework for Laboratory Notifications for Notifiable Diseases.
abstract: LabSurv is an electronic notification system developed to support laboratories to directly notify the results of notifiable disease testing to public health services in New Zealand. A direct laboratory notification middleware framework was developed to manage the information flow between laboratories and public health services. The framework uses an HL7 messaging standard to receive the laboratory results and windows services to integrate the results with the cases of notifiable diseases within a national electronic surveillance system. This paper presents the system design and implementation details of direct laboratory notification system in LabSurv. It presents the HL7 messages structure implemented in the system. Finally, the performance of the system based on implemented framework is analysed and presented to evaluate the efficiency of our design.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Environmental Science and Research, Wellington, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Mehnaz
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Adnan
authors.affiliation: Institute of Environmental Science and Research, Wellington, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Donald
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Peterkin
authors.affiliation: Institute of Environmental Science and Research, Wellington, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Aaron
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: McLaughlin
authors.affiliation: Institute of Environmental Science and Research, Wellington, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Nicholas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hill
mesh_terms: D002984:Clinical Laboratory Information Systems / Q000592:standards*; D018563:Disease Notification / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D066275:Health Information Exchange / Q000592:standards*; D057208:Health Level Seven / Q000592:standards*; D009520:New Zealand; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D014481:United States; D014492:United States Public Health Service / Q000592:standards