SYNEX: Synergy on extranet

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 97.0385-8

Key words (English)

Electronic patient records; middleware architecture; software integration

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: HC 4020

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 4. Frame Research Programme - 1.1 Information technologies

Short description (English)

See abstract

Further information (English)

Full name of research-institution/enterprise:
Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève HUG
Unité d'Information Médio-Economique
Institutions de Gériatrie et Psychiatrie

Partners and International Organizations (English)

Gesi Gestione Sistemi per l'informatica srl (IT), Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève - Hôpital cantonal (CH), Siemens Med (NO), Erasmus University Rotterdam, Dept. of Medical Informatics (NL), University College London (UK), Association Claude Bernard, Laboratoire de recherche en informatique médicale (F), Federated Dublin Voluntary Hospitals / St. Jame's Hospitals, Dept. of Anaesthesia / Dept. of Laboratory medicine (IRL), Danish institute for health and nursing research (DK)

Abstract (English)

SynEx is an industry-led Standard of middleware products for shared and distributed health records on heterogeneous systems. Based on this standard, SynEx has produced a portfolio of products for commercial use that are generic, modular, and re-usable : such as secured email, mediator, pilot, and authorisation service, etc.
The nursing record NUREC, developed an part of the Telenurse ID project, has been adapted to the middleware architecture resulting from SynEx. The nursing record manager of NUREC has been transformed into both a SynEx compliant client application emitting middleware request to a data server, and a SynEx compliant server or data feeder.
This transformation of NUREC has allowed the integration of NUREC with the nursing ward manager and medical order entry modules of Florence developed by an other partner within the Synex project, thus resulting into an integrated package NUREC-Florence that has been installed during the first semester 2001 in a nursing home in Danemark.
This integration can been seen as an actual demonstration of the benefit reusable components when adapted to the Synex architecture.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
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Swiss Project-Number: 97.0385-8