A Service-Oriented Healthcare Message Alerting Architecture in an Asia Medical Center: A Case Study

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Po-Hsun Cheng¹  Feipei Lai² 

[1] Department of Software Engineering, National Kaohsiung Normal University, No. 62, Shenjhong Road, Yanchao Township, Kaohsiung County, 82444, Taiwan; E-Mail:;Superintendent Office, National Taiwan University Hospital, No. 7, Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei, 10002, Taiwan; E-Mail:

关键词: alert;    disease surveillance;    health information system;    information technology;    patient safety;    service-oriented architecture;    short message service;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ijerph6061870

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

This paper illustrates how our development team has used some information technologies to let physicians obtain an instant abnormal laboratory result report for critical patient care services. We have implemented a healthcare message alerting system (HMAS) on a healthcare short message service (HSMS) engine and the distributed healthcare-oriented service environment (DiHOSE) in the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH). The HSMS engine has a general interface for all applications which could easily send any kind of alerting messages. Fundamentally, the DiHOSE uses HL7 standard formats to process the information exchange behaviors and can be flexibly extended for reasonable user requirements. The disease surveillance subsystem is an integral part of NTUH new hospital information system which is based on DiHOSE and the disease surveillance subsystem would send alerting messages through the HSMS engine. The latest cell phone message alerting subsystem, a case study, in NTUH proved that the DiHOSE could integrate the user required functions without much work. We concluded that both HSMS and DiHOSE can generalize and extend application demands efficiently.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
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