Information sharing is the critical component of both public and private healthcare. The national initiative to develop Health Information Networks (HINs), for example, seeks to make electronic sharing of data between healthcare providers and local, state, and federal agencies a practical reality. However, finding the right technology, based on the right standards and at the right price, has been a barrier for most healthcare providers.
HP breaks technology and expense barriers
Now, HP has developed a healthcare interoperability solution that breaks through the technology and cost barriers to enable healthcare providers to quickly, inexpensively, and reliably exchange and store data. With the combination of low-cost, high-availability HP Integrity NonStop 1000 servers and the Crossflo DataExchange (CDX3) solution, healthcare providers can make connections that aid in the fight against bioterrorism, support disease trend analysis, provide feedback to Health and Human Services agencies, and help measure and improve healthcare quality initiatives at local, state, and federal levels.
Integrity NonStop servers provide secure, continuously available, real-time access to critical healthcare information. The CDX3 solution rapidly connects data stores across disparate hospitals, labs, pharmacies, and government agencies while allowing healthcare providers to secure and retain control of their data. CDX3 can also be used to enable data sharing among hospital groups with different legacy healthcare solutions. The solution can even be leveraged as a data acquisition tool for moving information to a data warehouse, where CDX3 performs extraction, transformation, and loading of data that can be displayed in a web portal or exchanged with other operational data stores.
Standards-based for maximum interoperability
CDX3, fully tested and certified for use with Integrity NonStop servers, utilizes a standards-based approach and a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to provide a robust, system-agnostic solution that is extensible and scalable. To ensure maximum interoperability, CDX3 supports leading and emerging national data-sharing standards, including
- National Information Exchange Model (NIEM)
- Health Level 7 (HL7)
- Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) & Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)
- Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM)
Rapid deployment and security for cross-agency data sharing
CDX Version 3.2 is built on the enterprise-class J2EE application server standard and delivers comprehensive functionality, including
- User-driven data mapping system that provides “drag and drop” connection of data sources
- A powerful set of data transformation functions for standardizing data as it moves between agencies
- An expanded set of data sources, including relational databases, web services, message queues, Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs), and flat files
- Support for both federated (pull) and event driven (push) data-sharing models
- Support for publication-level and element-level encryption
For more information about the Crossflo DataExchange server, visit http://www.crossflo.com/.
This news is published on NonStop Computing websites. December 2006.
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