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Indicadores de desempenho em plataformas HL7

Authors: Arieira, Bruno Manuel Borlido;

Indicadores de desempenho em plataformas HL7

Abstract

Nos dias de hoje torna-se essencial garantir a disponibilidade de toda a informação que circula em unidades na área da saúde, com a finalidade de auxiliar os profissionais de assistência médica. Por conseguinte, não deve existir qualquer tipo de barreira inerente à comunicação entre os sistemas de informação, mesmo que estes sejam distintos quanto à sua implementação. É neste contexto que surge a interoperabilidade, isto é, a capacidade de diferentes sistemas estabelecerem a comunicação e troca de dados entre si, de forma eficaz, sem esforço adicional por parte do utilizador. Este conceito é promovido pela utilização de padrões específicos para troca de informação no domínio da saúde, como por exemplo o Health Level 7 (HL7), e de sistemas de software, que proporcionam a normalização e partilha dos dados entre todos os sistemas, designados plataformas de integração. Tendo em conta o elevado volume de mensagens a que este tipo de ferramentas poderá estar exposto, é indispensável que estejam operacionais 24 horas por dia, sem que exista qualquer tipo de sobrecarga de mensagens que comprometam o seu desempenho. Surge assim o objetivo principal da presente dissertação, a aquisição de métricas relevantes que proporcionam a performance ideal dos motores de integração, promovendo um fluxo de mensagens contínuo sem qualquer tipo de quebra. O software utilizado como objeto de estudo designa-se Mirth Colmai (também denominado NextGen Connect). Embora este tipo de sistemas de integração seja amplamente utilizado nas unidades de saúde, existe pouco trabalho de investigação inerente à avaliação do desempenho de ferramentas de interoperabilidade neste domínio específico. Tendo em consideração que a comunicação entre sistemas utilizada pela maioria deste tipo de plataformas é suportada por soluções Message Orientai Middleware (MOM), foram utilizados indicadores relacionados com abordagens de filas de mensagens e com boas práticas de processamento de fluxo de dados. Deste modo, para além de se promover os casos de análise e avaliação do comportamento da plataforma conforme métricas consideradas, também permite aos utilizadores deste tipo de ferramentas de software deterem uma noção das circunstãncias onde retiram o melhor aproveitamento do seu funcionamento.

Nowadays it is essential to ensure the availability of all the information that circulates in health units, in order to help health professionals. Therefore, there should be no inherent bather to communication between information systems, even if they are different in terms of their implementation. It's in this context that interoperability arises, the ability of different systems to establish communication and exchange of data with each other effectively, without additional effort on the part of the user. This concept is promoted by the use of specific standards for the exchange of information in the field of health, such as Health Level 7 (HL7), and software systems, which provide the standardization and sharing of data between all systems, called integration platforms. Given the high volume of messages to which this type of tool may be exposed, it is essential that they are operational 24 hours a day, without any type of message overload that compromises their performance. Thus emerges the main objective of this dissertation, the acquisition of relevant metrics that provide the optimal performance of the integration engines, promoting a continuous message flow without any kind of breakage. The software used as the object of study is called Mirth Connect (also called NextGen Connect). Although this type of integration systems is widely used in health units, there is low research work inherent in evaluating the performance of interoperability tools in this specific area. Taking into account that the communication between systems used by most of this type of platforms is supported by Message Oriented Middleroare (MOM) solutions, indicators related to message queue approaches and good data flow processing practices were used. Thus, in addition to promoting the cases of analysis and evaluation of the behavior of the platform according to the metrics considered, it also allows users of this type of software tools to have a notion of the circumstances where they take the best advantage of its operation.

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Interoperabilidade, Software de Integração, Fluxo de Mensagens, Integration Software, Message Flow, Interoperability, Indicadores de Desempenho, Performance Indicators

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