METHOD FOR UNIFIED COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MULTIPLE MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS

• US 20070239997A1
• Filed: 04/05/2007
• Published: 10/11/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fangming Duan, Jianming Qu, Jiongfeng Yang, Lixin Pu
• Original Assignee: Fangming Duan, Jianming Qu, Jiongfeng Yang, Lixin Pu
• Inventors: QU, Jianming, YANG, Jiongfeng, PU, Lixin, DUAN, Fangming
• Application Number:
  US11/696,791
• Publication Number:
  US 20070239997A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/193
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

The invention discloses a method for unified communication between multiple medical information systems. In accordance with the method of the invention, an isomerous gateway pool comprises multiple servers connected to the clients ports of various medical information systems via network ports. The network ports of a the gateway pool are connected to a network interface module and the information of various medical information systems is transformed by the servers via information analysis modules and information building modules into information conforming to an international electronic medical information standard. The information is then intercommunicated between various medical information systems. By applying the method taught by the invention, the intercommunication of information between various medical information systems is realized, and the problem of Information Island is solved, the work efficiency of medical systems is increased largely, and the information communication between various medical systems is improved, which is beneficial to the patients and the development of the medical profession.

Claims

1. A method for providing unified communication between multiple medical information systems comprising providing

an isomerous gateway pool comprising several servers having network ports and being connected to client ports of said medical information systems via said network ports;

said network ports of the isomerous gateway pool being connected to a network interface module;

an application system comprising an application layer, an encryption-decryption module;

a verification the module;

an information analysis module having a trigger mechanism;

an information building module; and

a network interface module;

a user interface; and

a database;

wherein said servers process information via steps comprising;

a) decrypting an inputted information by said encryption-decryption module;

b) verifying said inputted information by said verification the module to determine whether it conforms to an international electronic medical information standard;

c) if the information conforms to the international electronic medical information standard, replying to said application layer according to the international standard;

d) if the information does not conform to the international electronic medical information standard, sending the information to said information analysis module;

then analyzing a metadata of the received information to check whether the received information needs to be processed manually;

if the information needs to be processed manually, writing the information to said database, and sending a notice to said user interface;

if the information does not need to be processed manually, providing a trigger mechanism and sending it to said information building module;

e) receiving triggers from (i) said trigger mechanism of said information analysis module or said application system, and (ii) an automatic update of the system itself;

f) if a trigger is received from said trigger mechanism of said the information analysis module, building information strictly according to the information specified by the international electronic medical information standard in said information building module, and accessing the database on demand to generate a corresponding standardized information;

g) if a trigger is received from said automatic update of said system periodically, automatically building said standardized information conforming to said international electronic medical information standard in said information building module;

encrypting said standardized information, wherein said information is encrypted by DES symmetric encryption and a symmetric encryption key is encrypted by RSA asymmetric encryption by said encryption and decryption module; and

then sending said standard information after verifying it by said verification module to said client ports of said medical information systems via said network interface module and said network ports.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said encryption and decryption module is disposed between the verification module and the network interface module in the software module of the servers inside of said isomerous gateway pool, and processes the information by means of symmetric encryption.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the operation of said isomerous gateway pool is a load balancing operation.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the connection information of various servers of said gateway pool, the connection information and format information of the databases in different locations, and said information format supported by the international electronic medical information standard are all in a form of a configuration file.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the international electronic medical information standard is HL7.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the configurational file is adopted to generate data obtained through information analysis in a structural query language (SQL).

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said database is transformed in two steps, step 1 comprising operating the database directly by executing specific SQL statements, and step 2 comprising generating data obtained via information analysis.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein step 1 comprises inserting, modifying, deleting, and querying an SQL module.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein step 2 comprises obtaining data selected from the group consisting of information service type, table name, column name, and database operation type.