Aug 25

In my past articles I presented, amongst other things, HL7 v2 messaging solutions using the Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1 B2B HL7 infrastructure. At the beginning of the calendar year 2012 Oracle released a new incarnation if its HL7 messaging capability under the name of the “SOA Suite for healthcare integration”. This capability builds on the SOA Suite B2B HL7, adding design, configurator, monitoring and management user interface capabilities which greatly simplify the task of creating HL7 v2 messaging solutions and enhance management and operational reporting.
The new and changed functionality is significant enough for me to consider writing a series of articles on the topic. The series is intended to walk the reader through the tasks of creating specific HL7 v2 messaging solutions using the SOA Suite for healthcare integration.
At this point in time I expect to produce articles on the following topics, in the order given:

  1. Overview of the Development Environment – this article
  2. A Very Brief Overview of HL7 v2 Messaging
  3. A Very Brief Overview of the SOA Suite for healthcare integration
  4. Creating a Canonical Message Model – https://blogs.czapski.id.au/2012/09/soa-suite-for-healthcare-integration-series-creating-a-canonical-hl7-v2-message-model
  5. HL7 v2 Inbound to File – https://blogs.czapski.id.au/2012/11/soa-suite-for-healthcare-integration-series-hl7-v2-inbound-to-file-solution
  6. Constructing file name from message content and messaging properties – https://blogs.czapski.id.au/2012/11/soa-suite-for-healthcare-integration-series-hl7-v2-inbound-to-file-solution
  7. HL7 v2 Inbound to HL7 v2 Outbound Pass-through – https://blogs.czapski.id.au/2012/12/soa-suite-for-healthcare-integration-series-hl7-v2-inbound-cmm-to-outbound-pass-through-solution
  8. Transformation and Routing using XSL and Mediator – https://blogs.czapski.id.au/2012/12/soa-suite-for-healthcare-integration-series-routing-and-transformation-using-xsl-solution
  9. Adding Data Map for pass-through code translation – https://blogs.czapski.id.au/2013/01/soa-suite-for-healthcare-integration-series-domain-value-map-dvm-on-the-fly-code-mapping
  10. Automating Exception Message Handling – https://blogs.czapski.id.au/2013/01/soa-suite-for-healthcare-integration-series-exception-handling-processing-endpoint-errors
  11. Externalise, “Repair” and Resubmit “broken” messages – https://blogs.czapski.id.au/2013/01/soa-suite-for-healthcare-integration-series-externalise-repair-and-resubmit-broken-messages
  12. Implementing an A19 Query Processor – https://blogs.czapski.id.au/2013/01/soa-suite-for-healthcare-integration-series-implement-an-a19-query-processor
  13. Send, Receive and Translate HL7 messages using B2B Web Services
  14. Other Key Features
  15. HL7 v2 solution using JMS “the Java CAPS way” – https://blogs.czapski.id.au/2013/02/soa-suite-for-healthcare-integration-series-hl7-v2-solution-using-jms-the-java-caps-way (this article was propmpted by correspondence with Steve L)

It will take some time to produce these articles and the list may change.
I am interested in hearing from people about other topics they might like to see covered. I will consider suggestions though I am not promising that I will act upon them.
In the following sections I am briefly elaborating on what I expect each topic to cover, and presenting a solution schematic where a solution will be developed.

The article is availabe as “SOA Suite for healthcare integration Series – Series Overview” at https://blogs.czapski.id.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/SOASuiteHCI_ch1_Introduction_v0.1.0.pdf.

Aug 31

In this article I discuss and illustrate a “SOA-less” solution in which the Oracle SOA Suite 11g R2 B2B receives a stream of different HL7 v2 delimited messages types (A01 and A03) using a single inbound adapter. The messages are converted into their “equivalent” HL7 v2 XML messages. I say “SOA-less” because all the work is done entirely within the B2B part of the SOA Suite – no OSB or SOA Composites are involved.

This article demonstrates one way in which different message types can be accepted through one inbound adapter.

The complete text of the article is availabloe at https://blogs.czapski.id.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/07_Oracle_SOA_Suite_B2B_Receiving_Stream_of_Multiple_HL7_v2_Message_Types_v1.0.2.pdf.

Aug 30

In this article I discuss and illustrate a “SOA-less” solution which uses the Oracle SOA Suite 11g R2 B2B functionality to convert HL7 v2 delimited messages into their equivalent HL7 v2 XML messages. I say “SOA-less” because all the work is done entirely within the B2B part of the SOA Suite – no OSB or SOA Composites are involved.

The article text is available at https://blogs.czapski.id.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/06_Oracle_SOA_Suite_B2B_Quick_HL7v2_Delimited_to_HL7v2_XML_Conversion_v1.0.0.pdf

Jun 25

In this article I develop and exercise a simple Oracle SOA Suite 11g B2B infrastructure-based HL7 v2 Sender (outbound) project for an ADT A01 message and use Message tracker to view messages.

This article complements previous articles in the series, Oracle SOA Suite 11g HL7 Inbound Example and Oracle SOA Suite 11g HL7 Inbound Example – Functional ACK Addendum.

The text of the article, 03_Oracle_SOA_Suite_HL7_outbound_example_v0.1.0.pdf, is available at https://blogs.czapski.id.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/03_Oracle_SOA_Suite_HL7_outbound_example_v0.1.0.pdf

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Jul 02

“Progress” notwithstanding, Healthcare environments still extensively use the HL7 v2.x Delimited messages for conveyance of patient and patient-related information between applications. The GlassFish ESB provides support for HL7 v2.x messaging in the form of the HL7 Encoder, which allows conversion between HL7 v2 Delimited and HL7 v2 XML message formats, and in the form of the HL7 Binding Component, which allow connectivity between the GlassFish ESB-based healthcare solutions and healthcare applications that support HL7 over TCP connectivity.

In this document I will walk through the process of generating HL7 v2.3.1 delimited messages from pipe-delimited records containing patient information, sending and receiving HL7 v2.3.1 delimited messages using the HL7 Binding Component, parsing HL7 v2.3.1 delimited messages and writing HL7 v2 delimited messages to a file. To create and process HL7 messages I show how create a custom ADT A04 XML Schema and a custom “any HL7 v2 message” XML Schema. This gives me an opportunity to use the File Binding Component (File BC), the HL7 BC, the HL7 Encoder, the Custom Encoder and the BPEL Service Engine (BPEL SE). This also gives me an opportunity to demonstrate a HL7 v2.3.1 delimited message sender solution and to demonstrate a HL7 v2.3.1 delimited message receiver solution. At the end of the process we will have a file containing HL7 v2 delimited ADT A04 messages, which we will use in related writeups.

Here is the document: 02_PatientSvc_MakeHL7v2DelimDataFromCustomDelimRecords_0.4.pdf

Here is the companion archive containing input files, the output file and the projects: 02_PatientSvc_MakeHL7v2DelimDataFromCustomDelimRecords_data.zip

The writeup document has been updated and version changed to 0.4.

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