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Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise with WebSphere Message Broker V7.0

Extending the WebSphere Message Broker Healthcare sample for real-world integration

Lee Surprenant (lmsurpre@us.ibm.com), Software Engineer, IBM
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Lee Surprenant is an IBM software engineer on the Emerging Software Standards team in Research Triangle Park, NC. He is the project lead of the Stepstone Connected Health project at openhealthtools.org. Lee represents IBM in the Continua Health Alliance Technical Working Group, and with the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Patient Care Device (PCD) Domain. Lee holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Sciences and Applied Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Summary:  IBM® WebSphere® Message Broker Version 7.0 includes a set of healthcare assets that let you work more effectively with HL7 messaging. In this tutorial, learn to use the assets to build a hospital integration strategy centered on the patient identity management profiles defined by the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) IT Infrastructure (ITI) Technical Framework. Hands-on examples show how to extend the WebSphere Message Broker Healthcare Sample to develop re-usable subflows that leverage IHE Profiles for patient identity management. You can extend the sample flows for your own HL7 and non-HL7 interfacing projects.

Date:  15 Feb 2011
Level:  Intermediate
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About this tutorial

There is global focus on healthcare transformation, with an emphasis on quality of care at an affordable cost. Many studies highlight the role of IT in healthcare transformation, and administrators and legislators are taking note. There is a tremendous opportunity to responsibly break down silos of information that can collectively enable improved care. Interoperability goals in healthcare IT include connecting applications to share data seamlessly and securely across the healthcare ecosystem, and delivering the data to caregivers whenever and wherever needed.

This tutorial:

  • Introduces WebSphere Message Broker V7.0 and explores how it can be applied in key healthcare integration scenarios.
  • Builds on support for the healthcare messaging standards defined by Health Level Seven International (HL7), and shows how to extend the included healthcare sample into a flow that can perform message-based routing.
  • Explains how the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) organization's technical frameworks can improve healthcare interoperability for a select set of high-value integration scenarios.
  • Builds upon the HL7 message router flow to develop a reusable subflow that uses the IHE Patient Identifier Cross-reference (PIX) Query for improved system integration through a federated patient identity management solution.

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You will learn about important healthcare integration standards and how to use them to implement a high-value patient identity management solution. This tutorial is a hands-on introduction to the WebSphere Message Broker Healthcare sample. You will also learn how to extend the samples to leverage IHE profiles to support your own healthcare integration scenarios.

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Prerequisites

No prior WebSphere Message Broker or healthcare integration experience is assumed or required, though it might be helpful in understanding the concepts faster.

To follow along with this tutorial, you will need:

  • Access to systems with WebSphere Message Broker V7.0 and the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit.
  • Access to an installation of Initiate Patient or any other Enterprise Master Patient Index product that implements the IHE Patient Identifier Cross-reference Manager technical actor (to complete the final steps in the tutorial).

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