THE HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM
MIDDLEWARE INTERFACE ENGINE

A unique program that solves the most pressing problem facing hospitals and medical centers today - the need to share data between hospital information systems that were never designed to communicate. Middleware Interface Engine (MIE) integrates all of a hospital's mainframe and network based servers, running on top of an intra / extranet or Virtual Private Network, to seamlessly transfer data between diverse computer systems. It's the only program in its class to automatically re-establish connections in the event of system failures and power outages. This is imperative to elimate the need for operator intervention on mission critical systems.

 

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FEATURES:

• Re-establishes connections to multiple systems without operator intervention - imperative for mission critical systems.
• Seamlessly interfaces systems that were never designed to communicate or share information.
• PGP Encryption can be integrated to address patient privacy under HIPAA.
• Eliminates duplicate data entry & redundant hardware by linking Order entry systems, Census, Tracking, and Billing systems.
• Ensures quick access to vital medical & billing information across diverse computer platforms.
• Allows real-time sharing of data between HIS systems (e.g. Sunquest Lab data, TDS, Cerner, HCS, HP, Superdoc, etc.).
• Validates data for accurate data transfer (HL7, fixed length, and non-fixed length records, etc.).
• Runs at the IP & Port level to perform thousands of transactions per second.
• Monitors files sequentially or randomly for record chnages and routes modified record(s) to other systems.
• Establishes the communications base to directly link field-to-field of diverse databases to transfer data in real-time.
• Disaster Recovery - Maintains log files to rebuild history when systems go down.
  
  

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  REFERENCE SITE (Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Camden, NJ - part of a 104 hospital chain):
  
  
  Middleware Interface Engine (MIE) is used round the clock to pull patient demographic data from an SMS HIS system and routed to multiple destinations on the enterprise. Working at the IP and Port level, transfers are instantaneous to eliminate transfer bottlenecks. It validates the records against pre-established criteria (e.g. byte count, record terminations, etc.), and captures them into log files. If the records meet the established criteria, the data is prefixed with the system originating the data, date, and time stamped. If the record does not meet the criteria, it is captured to an error log file for the purpose of rebuilding history, testing and/or disaster recovery. If either system should go down, MIE generates a new Request ID and re-establishes communication automatically with no operator intervention.
  
  The software also includes a provision for modifying the operational parameters on-the-fly such as: fixed, non-fixed length, and HL7 record formats; new IP and Port Addresses; and new file paths. An additional option allows the transferred records to be displayed interactively through a user-friendly graphical interface and provides query and reporting capabilities. MIE can provide direct field-to-field mappings on diverse database platforms to update linked fields in real-time. The program can monitor designated files sequentially or randomly for changes and pass the modified records on to other systems on the enterprise.
  
  EXAMPLE OF USE AT LOURDES:
  MIE pulls patient records from the SMS mainframe & routes them to the Dialysis Information System where CPT / ICD9 billing codes are appended. The modified record is saved to an external file where it's picked up by MIE and routed back to the SMS system. Working entirely at the IP and Port address level makes it possible to process hundreds of thousands of records in seconds with no degradation in performance. Log files are captured for rebuilding history, testing, and disaster recovery. MIE eliminates the need to have operators babysit mission critical systems 24-7 via its inherent ability to re-establish communications when systems go down. Other interface products, such as RCO Open Link, developed by SMS, do not include this critical functionality.