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The Integration of Home Collected Data into the Veterans Administration Health System

Authors:
George Blankenship
Ellen Hans

Keywords: Keywords; telehealth; home telehealth; telemental health; HL7; CCOW; protocol validation; realtime HL7 transactions; collaborative processing; system validation

Abstract:
In 2004, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) was confronted with the creation of an enterprise application based upon multiple triage systems supplied by vendors who had dramatically different levels of experience with system integration or with the Health Level 7 International Standard (HL7). One objective of the Home Telehealth application was to leverage the capabilities of the existing VA electronic medical system (EMR) and medical software wherever possible. To accomplish this objective, a strong integration approach was required. The selected approach was the development of a reference engine that could be used to validate the communication between existing VA medical applications and the newly procured triage systems. This paper describes the validation approach used to evaluate a procured system’s readiness to operate in the collaborative environment of VA’s enterprise medical record system of over 200 distinct independent systems. The paper represents the opinion of the authors and is not a statement of any official position of the VA.

Pages: 7 to 12

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2018

Publication date: June 24, 2018

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4227

ISBN: 978-1-61208-645-3

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from June 24, 2018 to June 28, 2018