Integration Environment Software Module for Accumulation and Exchange of Digital Medical Data

Abstract

Introduction. The development of effective digital medicine tools is an intensive and complex process that requires the interdisciplinary efforts of a wide range of experts, from scientists and engineers to ethics experts and lawyers. Digital medicine products have great potential for improving medical measurement, diagnosis and treatment. One of the main challenges for the healthcare sector is to address the issue of fast, convenient and secure exchange of information about patients’ health. Service-oriented architectures of such products may accomplish many of the challenges facing healthcare systems. The purpose of the paper is to develop an information and software module ExchangeDMD to ensure the accumulation, storage and exchange of diagnostic medical data in accordance with modern medical information standards to maintain the interoperability function as one of the leading principles of digital medicine. Results. A special adaptive architecture of digital medicine infrastructure has been developed, which enables an integrated solution of data exchange between participants of providing medical services, which is carried out with the help of web services. The specifics of different types of medical information are analyzed and taken into account in accordance with the access regime for its processing. The module structure has been developed and implemented in software, which has three main levels: central virtual storage (virtual data center to implement certain functions), remote administration segment (technical support and administration network) and user segment (mobile devices and user-patient applications). Conclusions. The ExchangeDMD information and software module is designed to ensure the accumulation of patient data, integration between the various units within the system, as well as to ensure the management of this data by health care personnel. The ExchangeDMD module is built using the international standard HL7 CDA, which enables formalizing electronic medical records using RIM (information model links) to attract the necessary directories and classifiers when creating medical records and documents.