Interoperability between multiple different IT systems
SmartConnect is an intermediate powerful information system (middleware) that allows interconnection between multiple different IT systems each with different features and capabilities.
SmartConnect provides to health, welfare and social security institutions the ability to communicate with each other and to interconnect their information systems, offering comprehensive and consolidated information to end-users and the Administration.
For most health institutions, the information systems have been developed and installed during different time periods over the last years. Each institution covered its own requirements and in collaboration with software companies developed a combination of functions applied to the information systems, adjusted to the individual institution needs. As a result, health institutions manage and store data in incompatible formats. When these institutions try to unify their systems or to share electronic information with each other, inevitably serious incompatibility issues occur.
Smart Connect provides to health institutions a total solution to the above problem, ensuring an easy and safe interface for their information systems.
Advantages
Some of SmartConnect’s advantages for users and organisations of the health sector in their daily activities are:
- It unifies, completes automates and optimises operational procedures and data exchange among many diverse systems
- It allows organisations to communicate by exchanging error free messages with organisations that are outside organised units, even using emails and fax
- It simplifies the creation and management of application interface among already established information systems within an organisation
- It exempts clinical applications from the "peripheral" tasks of message delivery and management
- It minimizes error risk that relates to manual processes of message transmission
Technical Specifications
Supported message formats:
XML:
● W3C DTD compatible
International Standards:
● HL7 v2.x
● HL7 v3
● HL7 CDA
● HL7 FHIR
● NCPDP
● X12
Supported Communication Points:
● Database
● Directory
● S/FTP Client
● HTTP
● TCP/IP – MLLP
● JMS
● TCP Client
● TCP Server
● Web Services (SOAP/REST)
● DICOM
● Ability to create custom plug-ins
Additional Features
Automated message filing during system sign in and sign out.
Powerful security module. Data base with all users and their access rights. Only Users with specific access rights are allowed to make structural changes to the system or see statistical data relating its use.
Mapping filters. This feature allows the translation among any message format.
Content Exporting filters. These filters search for specific information in a message structure and update the message properties with the relevant information. This way, the message properties can be used as a reference point to route message delivery to different destination and also be used as control fields for online monitoring.
Routing/multiple sending filters: Option to send electronic messages to many recipient destinations using different message formats.
Encryption/Decryption Filters
MIME coding
Javascript filters
Indicative Interfaces
Interface of the Patient traffic office system with the Lab information system to transfer patient demographic and hospital admission data.
Message creation for diagnostic tests ordering from the Clinics to the Laboratories (Pathological & Cytological Examination, Microbiological, Biochemical, Hematological examinations).
Message creation for transfering the lab results from the Diagnostic centers to the clinics.
API creation for any information system.
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