Portability of Interfaces in Healthcare EAI Environments

Severin Linecker; Wolfram Wöß

doi:10.31577/cai_2022_1_357

Portability of Interfaces in Healthcare EAI Environments

Severin Linecker, Wolfram Wöß

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Abstract

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and HL7 (Health Level Seven) messaging are well established technologies in healthcare environments. Due to the age and longevity of HL7 standards (especially HL7 V2.x) and their widespread use, many interfaces outlive the middleware on which they run and must be ported to new systems. This often requires the entire code of the interface to be rewritten, which is associated with great effort and costs. This paper shows a generic EAI framework based on configuration and dependency injection for implementing reusable interfaces upfront and the results when applied to a real production EAI environment of an Austrian healthcare provider.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	357-375
Number of pages	19
Journal	Computing and Informatics
Volume	41
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.31577/cai_2022_1_357
Publication status	Published - Apr 2022

Fields of science

102010 Database systems
102015 Information systems
102025 Distributed systems

JKU Focus areas

Digital Transformation

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10.31577/cai_2022_1_357

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