Developing the XDS-scanning solution for primary health care and social welfare providers
Nevalainen, Miika (2021)
2021
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2021120724197
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2021120724197
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Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) is a worldwide community where healthcare professionals define the standards-based profiles for sharing the healthcare information as interoperability as possible. Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) is one of the standards-based models created by IHE. XDS is used to share healthcare documentation between any healthcare enterprise. XDS does not specify what kind of information is shared but how and by what parties.
The case company is using IHE XDS standards-based XDS-service as viewing, sharing, and archiving electrical and paper-based patient data. In Finland, XDS is a Kanta-certified system, and it is used to join the National archive of imaging data (Kvarkki) hosted by the Kanta services. Case company and a few organizations that operate in the social and health care sector have jointly acquired a new information system. The stakeholders have decided to use the case company’s XDS-service as an archiving system along with the new information system.
Based on the decision, there was a need for a universal XDS-scanning solution for primary health care and social welfare providers to be implemented to the XDS-service. Universal refers to a solution that can be implemented in most of the multifunction device (MFD) marks. This solution provides an opportunity to avoid archiving the un-wanted paper-based records and support the workflows using only electrical services and/or information system as the XDS-viewer is launched from the system.
This Master thesis’s objective was to develop the XDS-scanning workflows for primary health care and social welfare providers based on the best practices of IHE and Health Level Seven (HL7) guidance, prepare a proposal and build a test environment (infrastructure), and implement the solution to a provider’s MFD for further testing and validation.
The needed XDS-metadata for successfully archiving the documents is coming from multiple sources, include such as data from the case company’s code services, data from the information system, user-information from the provider’s active directory (AD) and secure print solution. Case company’s XDS-metadata model is done based on the National requirements and proposals (STM, Kela and THL), and the case company’s own need’s.
The objectives were successfully reached. The proposal for the test environment was agreed and built based on the proposal. XDS-scanning workflows for primary health care and social welfare were created and implemented to the MFD in the customer’s environment. The developed XDS-scanning solution is scalable, it can be implemented for other customer organizations in the future as well.
The case company is using IHE XDS standards-based XDS-service as viewing, sharing, and archiving electrical and paper-based patient data. In Finland, XDS is a Kanta-certified system, and it is used to join the National archive of imaging data (Kvarkki) hosted by the Kanta services. Case company and a few organizations that operate in the social and health care sector have jointly acquired a new information system. The stakeholders have decided to use the case company’s XDS-service as an archiving system along with the new information system.
Based on the decision, there was a need for a universal XDS-scanning solution for primary health care and social welfare providers to be implemented to the XDS-service. Universal refers to a solution that can be implemented in most of the multifunction device (MFD) marks. This solution provides an opportunity to avoid archiving the un-wanted paper-based records and support the workflows using only electrical services and/or information system as the XDS-viewer is launched from the system.
This Master thesis’s objective was to develop the XDS-scanning workflows for primary health care and social welfare providers based on the best practices of IHE and Health Level Seven (HL7) guidance, prepare a proposal and build a test environment (infrastructure), and implement the solution to a provider’s MFD for further testing and validation.
The needed XDS-metadata for successfully archiving the documents is coming from multiple sources, include such as data from the case company’s code services, data from the information system, user-information from the provider’s active directory (AD) and secure print solution. Case company’s XDS-metadata model is done based on the National requirements and proposals (STM, Kela and THL), and the case company’s own need’s.
The objectives were successfully reached. The proposal for the test environment was agreed and built based on the proposal. XDS-scanning workflows for primary health care and social welfare were created and implemented to the MFD in the customer’s environment. The developed XDS-scanning solution is scalable, it can be implemented for other customer organizations in the future as well.