HTB gateway for healthcare transaction base

• US 20060222003A1
• Filed: 03/29/2005
• Published: 10/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Majumdar, Anirban
• Granted Patent: US 7,881,336 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/18 Multiprotocol handlers, e.g. single devices capable of handling multiple protocols

Abstract

Techniques for communicating with a Healthcare Transaction Base, such as an HTB, without requiring the development of custom adapters are provided. A gateway is utilized that acts a transformation engine between various systems and the healthcare transaction base. One or more filters are utilized to transform a message from one format to another. Adding support for new protocols is simplified as support for a new protocol is added (or plugged-in) by associating any filters that are used to transform messages in the new protocol to a desired protocol.

Claims

1. A method of transforming messages, comprising:

receiving a message in a first protocol;

applying a first filter associated with the first protocol to transform the message to an intermediate format;

applying a second filter to transform the message in the intermediate format to a second format; and

sending the message in the second format.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

adding a new protocol;

receiving at least one filter for the new protocol that are utilized to transform a message in a new format; and

storing the at least one filter for the new protocol as being associated with the new protocol.

3. The method of claim 1, where the filters are stored in a configuration file associated with a protocol.

4. The method of claim 1, where the filters are pre-filters, post-filters, parallel filters or serial filters.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein sending the message comprises sending the message to a Healthcare Transaction Base (HTB) and where the second protocol is HL7 V3.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the message comprises receiving the message from a Healthcare Transaction Base (HTB) and where the first protocol is HL7 V3.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first or second protocol is GovTalk, HL7 V2.4, csvfiles, EDI, or XML.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first or second protocol is MLLP/TCP, MLLP/SSL/TCP, FTP, or SMTP.

10. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the computer readable medium is a CD-ROM, floppy disk, tape, flash memory, system memory, hard drive, or data signal embodied in a carrier wave.

9. A computer program product that transforms messages, comprising:

computer code that receives a message in a first protocol;

computer code that applies a first filter associated with the first protocol to transform the message to an intermediate format;

computer code that applies a second filter to transform the message in the intermediate format to a second format;

computer code that sends the message in the second format;

a computer readable medium that stores the computer codes.

11. A system, comprising:

a transaction database that communicates in a first protocol; and

a gateway that receives messages for the transaction database in a second protocol, applies a first filter associated with the second protocol to transform the message to an intermediate format, applies a second filter to the message to transform the message in the intermediate format to a second format, and sends the message in the second format to the transaction database.

12. The system of claim 11, further comprising a configuration file that stores the at least one filter associated with the second protocol.

13. A method of transforming messages for a Healthcare Transaction Base (HTB), comprising:

receiving a message in a first protocol;

applying a first filter associated with the first protocol to transform the message to an intermediate format;

applying a second filter to transform the message in the intermediate format to HL7 V3; and

sending the message in HL7 V3 to the HTB.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

adding a new protocol;

receiving at least one filter for the new protocol that are utilized to transform a message to HL7 V3; and

storing the at least one filter for the new protocol as being associated with the new protocol.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving an other message in HL7 V3 from the HTB;

identifying at least one filter associated with the first protocol to be applied to the other message to transform the message a first format;

applying the at least one filter to transform the message to the first format; and

sending the message in the first format.

16. The method of claim 13, where the filters are stored in a configuration file associated with a protocol.

17. The method of claim 13, where the filters are pre-filters, post-filters, parallel filters or serial filters.

18. The method of claim 13, wherein the first protocol is GovTalk, HL7 V2.4, csvfiles, EDI, or XML.

19. The method of claim 13, wherein the first protocol is MLLP/TCP, MLLP/SSL/TCP, FTP, or SMTP.

20. A computer program product that transforms messages for a Healthcare Transaction Base (HTB), comprising:

computer code that receives a message in a first protocol;

computer code that applies a first filter associated with the first protocol to transform the message to an intermediate format;

computer code that applies a second filter to transform the message in the intermediate format to HL7 V3;

computer code that sends the message in HL7 V3 to the HTB;

a computer readable medium that stores the computer codes.

21. The computer program product of claim 20, wherein the computer readable medium is a CD-ROM, floppy disk, tape, flash memory, system memory, hard drive, or data signal embodied in a carrier wave.

22. A system, comprising:

an Healthcare Transaction Base (HTB) that communicates in HL7 V3; and

a gateway that receives messages for the transaction database in a first protocol, applies a first filter associated with the first protocol to transform the message to an intermediate format, applies a second filter to the message to transform the message in the intermediate format to HL7 V3, and sends the message in HL7 V3 to the HTB.

23. The system of claim 22, further comprising a configuration file that stores the at least one filter associated with the first protocol.