JUDCon 2012 - Deep Dive into Your Business Processes using jBPM

A JUDCon 2012 session presented by Kris Verlaenen

Implementing a standards based Health Information Exchange in a large Healthcare System is a difficult task. Many healthcare software systems do not natively interoperate with modern standards based exchanges. The Health Information Exchange at Hartford Healthcare is based on specifications and standards defined by Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (www.ihe.net). This group aims to improve the way computer systems in healthcare exchange information. One of the major difficulties encountered during this project was the lack of native interoperability between various source data systems and the Health Information Exchange implementation.

To address this need the Interoperability group implemented key functionality which facilitated the easy exchange of data between hospital based systems and the exchange. The functionality was developed as native JBoss ESB services. Along with these services a JBoss ESB native gateway was developed to facilitate the exchange of HL7 messages between various parts of the system. Beside serving as a critical part of the internal health information exchange between Hartford Healthcare entities the platform was also deployed during a statewide pilot project at 3 other hospitals. The software assets from this project are freely available at the Open Health Tools forge (www.openhealthtools.org) under an Apache license.