AurigaHL7

2017

The amount of data generated by various medical devices, wearable gadgets and medical applications is growing every day. However, hospitals can only use all this information when their devices and information systems communicate through a common protocol. One such protocol allowing medical applications to securely share patient data is Health Level 7 (HL7) - the globally recognized, widely accepted and most commonly used standard of interoperability (interoperability) in the world.

Auriga aims to become Auriga of the HL7 expert community and expand its expertise in medical data interoperability. In 2016, Auriga launched the internal development of the Open Source library to ensure compatibility of medical devices based on the HL7 protocol, and in December 2016 the company's engineers released a release of the solution.

The developed library supports the second version of the HL7 protocol, provides cross-platform development of applications and is an object-oriented parser/generator for C++, i.e. allows you to use the HL7 object model for parsing and encoding the necessary data. The library uses a combination of automatically generated code and elaborate handwriting modules and provides developers with a number of sequential, well-documented components that, when shared, provide a flexible mechanism to support the HL7 v2.x standard.

Thus, Auriga's team presented a solution for transmitting almost any data within the hospital. The library implementing the HL7 protocol allows the exchange of data between the laboratory and the patient monitor, the information system of the medical institution (HIS) and the laboratory, HIS and the Holter monitor, HIS and wearable gadgets, within the framework of HIS itself or any diagnostic equipment (be it a small tonometer or a large ultrasound apparatus).

The first prototype library was created on and OS Linux then ported to the OS. Windows The library is available on two main operating systems. The application is of particular interest to clinics, since the doctor no longer needs to collect data from various sources - it is enough to familiarize yourself with the information directly on the patient's monitor and adjust the course of treatment.

(data current as of January 2017)