A framework for consolidating laboratory data using Enterprise Service Bus

This paper proposes a framework for consolidating laboratory data by adopting an Enterprise Service Bus as a backbone for interchanging laboratory data between: medical instruments, the Laboratory Information Management System and the Hospital Information System. A laboratory test result is one of the major components in medical diagnosis and procedures. It can be used to plan a patient's treatment and monitor the disease over time. The existing architecture has two disadvantages, the security and maintenance issues. The proposed framework can tackle these limitations and reduce the time interval for polling the test requests and results. The Enterprise Service Bus is used for the connectivity layer in the proposed framework and it provides many advantages. The paper also shows the implementation of the proposed framework. © 2010 IEEE.