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Interface Engines in Healthcare

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Synonyms

Mapping engines; Messaging engines; Service buses; Transformation engines

Definition

A computer application that supports the transformation of the syntactic and semantic structures in communication content during transmission from a sending system to receiving system(s), ensuring reliable delivery of the communication and minimizing information loss and semantic shift during the communication.

Historical Background

Before the invention of application programming interfaces (API) and CORBA Interface Definition Language (IDL) files, “interface” was the term used to describe the electronic communication of information between two computers [1]. Today, the term “interface” also refers to communications between layers of software and even between software objects within a software layer. A modern example of an interface is a Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) file in XML format (www.w3.org).

Within early interfaces, the syntax of the communication content, i.e., linear...

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  1. Oracle Health Sciences, Redwood Shores, CA, USA

    Dan Russler

  2. Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Dan Russler

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Director, Clinical Programs, CIGNA Healthcare, Bloomfield, Connecticut, USA

    Vipul Kashyap

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Russler, D. (2018). Interface Engines in Healthcare. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_103

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