HEALTH-CARE RELATED DATABASE MIDDLEWARE

• US 20110225176A1
• Filed: 03/07/2011
• Published: 09/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Atlas Development Limited
• Original Assignee: Atlas Development Limited
• Inventors: von Blanck, Russell, Siegel, Jason
• Granted Patent: US 8,583,694 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/756
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/25 Integrating or interfacing systems involving database management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

A system for electronic transmission of electronic medical records includes an object model derived from a messaging protocol, the object model configured to generate metadata for electronic medical records provided through a user-specified form. The system also includes a database configured according to the object model, the database physically stores the metadata generated by the object model. A data bridge/data set pair transforms the metadata from a first format utilized by the database to a second format utilized by a recipient institution and a messaging module transmits the electronic medical records in the second format to the recipient institution.

Claims

1. A method for electronic transmission of electronic medical records, the method comprising:

generating metadata for the electronic medical records provided by a user-specified form;

physically storing the metadata in an object model of a database, the object model matching a logical model that is derived from a messaging protocol;

transforming the metadata for the electronic medical records stored in the object model to a format utilized by a recipient institution for transmission using the messaging protocol; and

transmitting the electronic medical records represented in the format to the recipient institution.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, the messaging protocol is the Health Level 7 (HL7) V3 messaging standard.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein, the object model is defined based on data mapping of fields to values in accordance with the messaging protocol.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein, the data mapping of fields is specific to a medical institution.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein, the object model is XML-based.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein, XSLT is used to transform the metadata to the format.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising, reducing storage used in storing the metadata in the object model of the database by converting a primary key associated with the metadata from a globally unique identifier to an integer identifier.

8. A system for transmitting electronic medical records, the system comprising:

an object model derived from a messaging protocol, the object model configured to generate metadata for electronic medical records provided through a user-specified form;

a database configured according to the object model, the database configured to physically store the metadata generated by the object model;

a message generation module configured to transform the metadata from a first format utilized by the database to a second format utilized by a recipient institution; and

a transmission module configured to transmit the electronic medical records in the second format to the recipient institution.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein, the messaging protocol is the Health Level 7 (HL7) V3 messaging standard.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein, the object model is defined based on data mapping of fields to values in accordance with the messaging protocol.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein, the data mapping of fields is specific to a medical institution.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein, the object model is XML-based.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein, XSLT is used to transform the metadata to the format.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein, the storage used in storing the metadata in the object model of the database is reduced by converting a primary key associated with the metadata from a globally unique identifier to an integer identifier

15. A system for transmitting electronic medical records, the system comprising:

a user interface configured to allow a user to specify a form for user input;

a data mapping tool configured to allow a user to map a field value from the specified form to a data field of an XML based object model derived from a Health Level 7 (HL7) Reference Information Model (RIM), the object model configured to generate metadata for electronic medical records input using the specified form;

a database configured according to the object model, the database configured to physically store the metadata generated by the object model;

a message generation module configured to transform the metadata from a first format utilized by the database to a second format utilized by a recipient institution, wherein XSLT is used to transform the metadata to the second format; and

a transmission module configured to transmit the electronic medical records in the second format to the recipient institution.

16. A method for electronic transmission of electronic medical records, the method comprising:

receiving, from a user, a data mapping that maps from a field value in a user-specified form to a data field in an object model of a database;

generating metadata for the electronic medical records utilizing the data mapping;

physically storing the metadata in the object model of a database, the object model matching a logical model that is derived from a Health Level 7 (HL7) Reference Information Model (RIM);

transforming the metadata for the electronic medical records stored in the object model to a format utilized by a recipient institution for transmission using XSLT; and

transmitting the electronic medical records represented in the format to the recipient institution.

17. A method for electronic transmission of electronic medical records, the method comprising:

generating metadata for the electronic medical records provided by a user-specified form;

physically storing the metadata in an object model of a database, the object model matching a logical model that is derived from a messaging protocol;

reducing storage used in storing the metadata in the object model of the database by converting a primary key associated with the metadata from a globally unique identifier to an integer identifier;

transforming the metadata for the electronic medical records stored in the object model to a format utilized by a recipient institution for transmission using the messaging protocol; and

transmitting the electronic medical records represented in the format to the recipient institution.