Clinical results of HIS, RIS, PACS integration using data integration CASE tools

Ricky K. Taira; Hing-Ming Chan; Claudine M. Breant; Lu J. Huang; Daniel J. Valentino

doi:10.1117/12.208803

12 May 1995 Clinical results of HIS, RIS, PACS integration using data integration CASE tools

Ricky K. Taira, Hing-Ming Chan, Claudine M. Breant, Lu J. Huang, Daniel J. Valentino

Proceedings Volume 2435, Medical Imaging 1995: PACS Design and Evaluation: Engineering and Clinical Issues; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.208803
Event: Medical Imaging 1995, 1995, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Current infrastructure research in PACS is dominated by the development of communication networks (local area networks, teleradiology, ATM networks, etc.), multimedia display workstations, and hierarchical image storage architectures. However, limited work has been performed on developing flexible, expansible, and intelligent information processing architectures for the vast decentralized image and text data repositories prevalent in healthcare environments. Patient information is often distributed among multiple data management systems. Current large-scale efforts to integrate medical information and knowledge sources have been costly with limited retrieval functionality. Software integration strategies to unify distributed data and knowledge sources is still lacking commercially. Systems heterogeneity (i.e., differences in hardware platforms, communication protocols, database management software, nomenclature, etc.) is at the heart of the problem and is unlikely to be standardized in the near future. In this paper, we demonstrate the use of newly available CASE (computer- aided software engineering) tools to rapidly integrate HIS, RIS, and PACS information systems. The advantages of these tools include fast development time (low-level code is generated from graphical specifications), and easy system maintenance (excellent documentation, easy to perform changes, and centralized code repository in an object-oriented database). The CASE tools are used to develop and manage the `middle-ware' in our client- mediator-serve architecture for systems integration. Our architecture is scalable and can accommodate heterogeneous database and communication protocols.

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Ricky K. Taira, Hing-Ming Chan, Claudine M. Breant, Lu J. Huang, and Daniel J. Valentino "Clinical results of HIS, RIS, PACS integration using data integration CASE tools", Proc. SPIE 2435, Medical Imaging 1995: PACS Design and Evaluation: Engineering and Clinical Issues, (12 May 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.208803

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