HealthShare Health Connect Overview
HealthShare Health Connect™ is an integration engine that delivers the high-volume transaction support, unparalleled process management, and continuous monitoring required for the “always on” business of healthcare. With Health Connect, you can integrate more systems and departments, handle growing volumes of information and users, and innovate faster. Systems using Health Connect won’t bog down or slow the pace of care as usage grows. Health Connect’s many features include healthcare interoperability, FHIR® support, built-in data transformations, superior monitoring, and high performance.
Healthcare Interoperability
Truly connected healthcare requires interchangeable information that flows across all sources, modern and legacy. Health Connect supports the standards and profiles required for interoperability and document-based health information exchange with other healthcare organizations, clinicians, and public health agencies. Some of these standards and profiles include:
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FHIR®
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HL7v2 and HL7v3
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IHE Profiles, including XDS.b, XCA, PIX, PDQ, and MHD
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CDA/C-CDA Documents
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DICOM
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X12
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and more
FHIR Support
Health Connect includes deep support for FHIR® interoperability. InterSystems is actively involved in the evolution of the FHIR standard through employee contributions at the HL7 board level, standards-committee participation, and a strong commitment of internal resources. Health Connect provides everything an interface engineer needs to handle FHIR requests. It includes FHIR client and server components, a FHIR object model, and built-in transformations that translate between FHIR and other health information interchange standards such as HL7 v2 and C-CDA.
Health Connect can receive or send FHIR resources via the FHIR RESTful API, in JSON or XML formats. This allows applications based on the latest technologies to use FHIR data — new or mapped from legacy systems — for a variety of use cases.
For more details, see FHIR Support in InterSystems Products.
Higher Productivity of Interface Engineers
Healthcare organizations may manage hundreds of different specialized applications, systems, and devices that must work together efficiently, securely, and without interruption. Health Connect provides features that make it easier for interface engineers to create, manage, and troubleshoot such systems, including:
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Drag-and-drop HL7 schema editing, data-mapping, business rule creation, and workflows.
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Source control for HL7 schemas, including custom schemas.
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Drag-and-drop managed file transfers using popular data storage services such as DropBox, Box, and Kiteworks, or the dropping of files into other applications for processing. For details, see Enabling Productions to Use Managed File Transfer Services.
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Containerized deployment in public or private clouds. For details, see InterSystems Cloud Manager Guide.
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A Java or .NET component that runs Java and .NET apps as efficiently as native components within integrations and workflows. For details, see PEX: Developing Productions with Java and .NET.
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Unit testing for routing rules.
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Smart searches that find all the places in a production where a given component is used and all the routes that a message can take in the production. For details, see “Finding Interface References” and “Viewing Interface Maps” in Monitoring Productions.
Monitoring and Management
Health Connect includes industry-leading message trace capabilities, a powerful test harness, and robust auditing that facilitates the creation, debugging, and support of all your interfaces. Event detection, alerting, and monitoring ensure that information continues to flow even when source systems pause or fail. Messages are never lost, and an interrupted business process can always restart from the point of interruption.
High Performance and Reliability
At the heart of Health Connect is an ultra-high-performance, multi-model database engine that seamlessly handles multiple forms of data at high speed, with vertical and horizontal scalability. Health Connect easily scales to handle the transaction volumes of some of the largest and most complex healthcare providers in the world. The Health Connect database engine provides several options for high availability (HA) and disaster recovery, including clustering, virtualization HA, and an elegant, easy-to-implement technology for database mirroring.