HICT Medical Devices Integration Component

Case Study from our customer HICT Medical Devices Integration Component By Pascal Sabbe, IT Project Lead, HICT Belgium

 

 

HICT Medical Devices Integration Component

Aspose.Words and Aspose.Pdf Implementation Case Study

By Pascal Sabbe, IT Project Lead, HICT Belgium

 

Product Background

 

For a major supplier of Medical Devices, HICT has written an extensive bi-directional integration component to fully integrate the former stand-alone devices into a generic hospital infrastructure. The integration component supports numerous workflows and infrastructures:

 

• HL7 ADT v2.x communication with Patient Administration System, both in a responsive way as in a query & response scenario.
• Comprehensive management of a Medical Device’s work list with possibility for automatic, semi-manual or manual management.
• Medical Device Report parsing in a multitude of formats, amongst the most used are Word and PDF format.
• Communication with Result Server System in a multitude of formats, with possibilities to stream results, generate new PDF reports, etc

 

Requirements Scenario

 

A newly requested feature by some important customers was to have the Integration Component generate a new PDF report, based on a dynamically generated set of information. The information contained in the report is medical information, and is subject to strict privacy and patient safety regulations.

 

Solution Implementation

 

After research the Aspose.Words and Aspose.Pdf components were chosen. The main reasons were the ease of implementation, the extensive documentation and the assurance all required functionality was present. The new functionality was implemented, validated and approved in a record time of two days, the best proof of the ease of use and stability of the Aspose components.

 

Benefits

 

The Aspose .NET components are very lightweight, managed code, provide structured exception handling, etc. allowing software manufacturers to implement non-core functionality without hassle.

 

Other key features include:

 

• Great performance
• Minimal learning curve
• Comprehensive documentation with a wiki and a forum
• Detailed C# code samples delivered with components
• Royalty free distribution (Developer OEM Subscription)

 

Conclusions

 

For this project, the components gave us more then we bargained for. The implementation was a breeze, the added value ensured full customer satisfaction.

 

For future projects, where components might be required, Aspose is definitely the first place we will look. If they provide what we need, the search stops at Aspose

 

Pascal Sabbe, IT Project Lead, HICT Belgium

April 2007.