Software integrador de información médica utilizando Health Level Seven y FHIR

Abstract

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) and Health Level 7 (HL7) in recent years have gained considerable prominence in the medical industry, both are medical information standards whose purpose is to achieve interoperability between the different systems of medical service providers. FHIR and HL7 reduce the efforts of the medical industry when it comes to interoperating with other medical entities, since they provide a single data structure that aims to be universal, and FHIR is built with the REST approach. However, in the Latin American medical industry and specifically in Ecuador, the efforts to achieve medical interoperability have been overshadowed by many aspects, the most evident being the investment that would entail building new medical systems that make use of these standards and render obsolete to previous systems, or at least to much of their data mining. However, this process is necessary in order to comply with the universality proposed by the Ecuadorian state, where it is defined as extending the coverage of the benefits of the health system to the entire population. For this reason, in this degree work, the design and implementation of a medical information middleware is presented using the HL7 and FHIR standards, which allows the interoperability of medical information systems.