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Newborn Screening Healthcare Information System Based on Service-Oriented Architecture

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In this paper, we established a newborn screening system under the HL7/Web Services frameworks. We rebuilt the NTUH Newborn Screening Laboratory’s original standalone architecture, having various heterogeneous systems operating individually, and restructured it into a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), distributed platform for further integrity and enhancements of sample collections, testing, diagnoses, evaluations, treatments or follow-up services, screening database management, as well as collaboration, communication among hospitals; decision supports and improving screening accuracy over the Taiwan neonatal systems are also addressed. In addition, the new system not only integrates the newborn screening procedures among phlebotomy clinics, referral hospitals, as well as the newborn screening center in Taiwan, but also introduces new models of screening procedures for the associated, medical practitioners. Furthermore, it reduces the burden of manual operations, especially the reporting services, those were heavily dependent upon previously. The new system can accelerate the whole procedures effectively and efficiently. It improves the accuracy and the reliability of the screening by ensuring the quality control during the processing as well.

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The authors would like to acknowledge members of the Pediatrics and Medical Genetics Office, the Information Systems Office at NTUH for their kindly assistance.

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  1. Information Systems Office, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

    Sung-Huai Hsieh, Sheau-Ling Hsieh, Yung-Ching Weng & Feipei Lai

  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Sung-Huai Hsieh, Yung-Ching Weng, Kai-Ping Hsu, Chien-Ming Tu & Feipei Lai

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Chi-Huang Chen & Feipei Lai

  4. Network and Computer Centre, National Chiao Tung University, Hsin Chu, Taiwan

    Sheau-Ling Hsieh

  5. Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Feipei Lai

  6. Department of Medical Genetics, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

    Yin-Hsiu Chien

  7. Computing Laboratory, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

    Zhenyu Wang

  8. Information Department, National Taiwan University Hospital, No.7, Chung-San South Road, Taipei, Taiwan

    Sung-Huai Hsieh

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Hsieh, SH., Hsieh, SL., Chien, YH. et al. Newborn Screening Healthcare Information System Based on Service-Oriented Architecture. J Med Syst 34, 519–530 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-009-9265-x

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