HMOS Middleware for Healthcare Interoperability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current healthcare information management systems face challenges in interoperability, data consistency, scalability, and security, leading to inadequate access to timely and accurate patient information, which can result in inappropriate treatments and potentially life-threatening side effects.
Innovation Solution
A middleware operating system (HMOS) with stratified tiers, providing core operating system functions, security, and domain-specific services, including APIs for compliance with healthcare standards, workflow management, and secure data storage, ensures interoperability and real-time data access while ensuring quality of service requirements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple independent healthcare information systems are used for different functional entities, then each system can be optimized for its specific function, but interoperability and data consistency between systems deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal middleware operating system that provides common services (messaging, security, workflow management, data exchange) that can be used by multiple different healthcare information systems. This allows each system to maintain its specialized functionality while sharing common infrastructure, thereby achieving both optimization and interoperability.
Solution Approach 2:
The middleware operating system acts as an intermediary layer between different healthcare information systems. It provides standardized interfaces and protocols for communication, enabling systems to exchange data and coordinate operations without direct integration, thus solving the interoperability problem while preserving system independence.
2Adaptability or versatility
If manual integration steps are used to connect different information systems, then flexibility in connecting systems is maintained, but data consistency and integration efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The middleware operating system provides automated services for data exchange, security management, and workflow coordination between systems. Instead of requiring manual integration steps, the system automatically handles data routing, transformation, and consistency maintenance, thereby improving integration efficiency while maintaining flexibility through configurable service interfaces.
3Ease of operation
If data is stored separately in different systems, then each system can manage its own data independently, but data consistency and security across systems deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The middleware operating system implements feedback mechanisms that monitor and ensure data consistency across distributed systems. When data is created, modified, or deleted in one system, the middleware propagates these changes to relevant systems and verifies consistency, thereby maintaining data reliability while preserving independent data management capabilities.
4Stability of the object's composition
If legacy healthcare information management systems are used, then existing infrastructure is maintained, but scalability and security against modern threats deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The middleware operating system provides a dynamic platform that allows legacy systems to adapt to modern requirements. It enables scalable deployment, enhanced security implementations, and integration with contemporary healthcare technologies while maintaining compatibility with existing legacy systems, thereby achieving both stability and adaptability.
Data Source
AI summary
A method of and a system for development of health care information Systems (HIS) are disclosed. The method includes providing software programming interfaces for development of application modules, communication interfaces for establishing communication between various modules, and resource management interfaces for allocation of resources such as memory. The system comprises of a server with a health care middleware operating system (HMOS). The HMOS is designed as a multi-tier architecture with 3 tiers namely, application tier, domain services tier, and Foundations tier.