Clinical Workflow and Integration Technology Provides Better Patient Care

A new data integration platform ensures that hospital planning tools incorporate patient data such as prescribed diets, allergies, intolerances, and medications that may be stored in disparate hospital systems.

The Rhapsody Integration Engine has been specifically designed to meet the present and future needs of health integration, by managing and streamlining message exchange between hospital applications, databases, and external systems. The system supports numerous communication protocols and message formats, allowing it to act as a mapping and translating mediator between incompatible systems. Messages are reliably and accurately delivered regardless of the format or transportation type required. A drag-and-drop configuration allows complex routing and processing to be easily configured, and powerful web-based monitoring tools allow fast and efficient resolution of issues or reprocessing of messages. The Rhapsody engine is accessed via an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, and system monitoring uses a web-based interface that is easy to use and has powerful searching capabilities. Standard Java technology and exported developer application programming interfaces (APIs) deliver a high degree of customization and programmability, as well as multi platform compatibility.

The Rhapsody Integration Engine utilizes an embedded high-performance message store to ensure full traceability and optimum performance; messages are archived in the message store until a configured time to allow for regulatory requirements or protect against unstable systems. The integration engine also includes the Symphonia integration tools, which allow organizations to reduce development and deployment times when adding messaging interfaces to applications; developers can rapidly create electronic data interchange (EDI) components and quickly create mappings between multiple message formats. Healthcare organizations can seamlessly transfer information both internally and externally, without the need to replace existing information systems. The Rhapsody Integration Engine is a product of Orion Health (Auckland, New Zealand).

"We believe that the Rhapsody Integration Engine is proving popular because it puts control of interfacing in the hands of the hospitals and health authorities,” said Ed Percy, Chief Technology Officer for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) at Orion Health. "Rhapsody allows health organizations… to pursue an ongoing program of IT modernization without the worry about how to handle the integration of new systems with legacy infrastructure.”

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