OPEN SOURCE REFERENCE IMPLEMENTATION

Developing a reference implementation of the Canada Health Infoway pan-Canadian Electronic Health Record Solution standard can be a useful step in ensuring the successful and cost-effective development of full scale electronic health systems in the Provincial Ministries of Health across Canada. The...

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Published in:The open source business resource 2008-11, p.11-11
Main Authors: Yendt, Mark, Bender, Duane, Minaji, Brian
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access to information
Architecture (computers)
Construction
Construction costs
Electronic health records
Electronics
Freeware
Health
Health informatics
Jurisdiction
Open source software
Participation
Private sector
Product development
Project management
Reference linking
Service oriented architecture
Software engineering
Source code
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Summary:Developing a reference implementation of the Canada Health Infoway pan-Canadian Electronic Health Record Solution standard can be a useful step in ensuring the successful and cost-effective development of full scale electronic health systems in the Provincial Ministries of Health across Canada. The reference implementation utilizes an Enterprise Service Bus architecture and a Service Oriented Architecture design approach to build a Health Information Access Layer, as recommended by Canada Health Infoway. The system components and supporting technology developed will be released as open source. Mohawk Applied Research Centre for Health Informatics at Mohawk College, along with public and private sector partners, is continuing to build a reference implementation of the pan-Canadian Infoway standard that demonstrates the ESB/SOA approach. This article summarizes the project to date and suggests future research areas that will reduce the cost, risk and time barriers to widespread adoption of eHealth systems in Canada.
ISSN:1913-6102