Electronic health record server and DICOM Integration
The electronic health record server comprises a set of Java middleware components interacting with an Oracle database to store, retrieve, and interrogate any arbitrary clinical information. It has been designed to meet clinical and medico-legal requirements to ensure a flawless transition regarding operational procedures. In addition, its internal reference model conforms to the CEN standard for EHR (Electronic Health Records) Communications. Furthermore, through the 6WINIT project, its architecture has supported access via wireless New Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPV6). IPV6 has extended Internet capabilities with regard to address depletion, security, auto configuration, and extensibility. The DICOM image viewer allows doctors to access medical images on their handheld equipment. Its most important advantages are its portability between multiple PDA platforms and ease of integration with Jini/Jiro. Jini/Jiro is a network technology that enables developers to create network-centric services, allows users to display and zoom DICOM examinations, such as electrocardiograms, view DICOM textual tags, such as heart rate measures and mark annotations such as any irregularities in order to make a diagnosis . The operational server has been in effect at the Whittington Hospital in London, supporting anticoagulation, chest pain and heart failure outpatient services. In all likelihood, this integration will be widely utilised by medical communities in the future.
