Graphnet Health

Graphnet’s Data integration

Since 1998 Graphnet has established a solid record of achievement earning an unparalleled reputation for its integration skills by connecting separate applications within single hospitals and Trusts as well as within the wider community and primary arenas – it even has systems operating across whole regional health economies This modular and flexible technology has enabled customers to create ever more comprehensive safe secure shared electronic health record systems on local and regional bases providing a diverse range of services. The same technology offers similar opportunities on a national basis.

An incremental approach to deployment means that systems can be developed to meet local resource availability with applications that local healthcare professionals are accustomed to using preserved and maintaining return on investments - enabling NHS and related organisations to deliver better care on a reducing cost base.

An extensive range of file, messaging and coding formats has had to be included: from flat files to interfacing to remote network shares, XML, HL7 v2 & v3, edifact, Dicom, Read, Snomed, OPCs 9 & 10, and many others.

Graphnet are committed to complying with existing and advancing standards; be they NHS, eGIF, European or industry

G-XIF: Data Integrator

Specifically designed for Graphnet software, the GXIF integration engine will guarantee complete standardisation across all incoming data feeds. In addition to the core engine, each interface now only requires a simple "plug-in", a schema and 2 style sheets – dramatically reducing the development time normally associated in working with multiple differing systems across a typical Health Community.

GXIF has also been used to interface Graphnet applications with a range of Connecting for Health systems (such as PAS) in hospital, community and area settings to collect CfH messages and, where there are appropriate receiving systems in place, GXIF has been used bi-directionally to feed data back to other systems.

Advantages of the GXIF integration engine are:

Schema validation Messages can be validated to strict criteria before being accepted. If a message does not immediately fit the schema, it can be set aside for pre-processing.

Message acknowledgements are sent back to the sender. This is critical to a large scale implementation reporting back to GPs as messages cannot afford to be lost.

Message Queues Incoming messages are sent to Work queues, and then proceed to Retry queues, Processed queues and Failure Queues. The monitoring and notifications engine make it easy to see messages working their way through the engine.

Real-time, Multi-threaded engine - messages can be processed near-real-time with minimal CPU power. The core entry point of the engine is an XML web-service. XML Web-services provide the most effective way of receiving messages across a secure (https) link. Given a typically robust hardware infrastructure of network-load-balanced web servers, maximum throughput will be obtained as opposed to traditional file drop/ftp methods.

Key Features: G-XIF

Real-time recording of patient data.

Easy implementation.

Custom handling of business rules.

Extensible framework to accommodate differing requirements of clinicians.

Benefits: G-XIF

Receive, process, archive and distribute data from various systems.

Receive and distribute data using any channel conforming to an accepted standard.

Provide the capacity for real-time information flow.

Reports can be generated on the data being passed around the organisation.

Who should use it: G-XIF

All those involved in the integration of multiple systems to provide a more complete patient record.