TY - JOUR T1 - Developing an Open Source Reference Implementation of the Canadian Electronic Health Records Solution JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2008 A1 - Mark Yendt A1 - Duane Bender A1 - Brian Minaji AB - Developing a reference implementation of the Canada Health Infoway pan-Canadian Electronic Health Record Solution standard can be a useful step in ensuring the successful and cost-effective development of full scale electronic health systems in the Provincial Ministries of Health across Canada. These jurisdictions could benefit from the knowledge gained and the artifacts created in this prototype environment. The reference implementation utilizes an Enterprise Service Bus architecture and a Service Oriented Architecture design approach to build a Health Information Access Layer, as recommended by Canada Health Infoway. The system components and supporting technology developed will be released as open source. This set of technology could represent a starting point for prototyping an implementation in a production environment, for creating a standards development platform, for standards conformance testing, and/or as a test bed for evaluating alternative software components in a HIAL environment. Mohawk Applied Research Centre for Health Informatics at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario, along with public and private sector partners, is continuing to build a reference implementation of the pan-Canadian Infoway standard that demonstrates the ESB/SOA approach. This article summarizes the project to date and suggested future research areas that will reduce the cost, risk and time barriers to widespread adoption of eHealth systems in Canada. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/204 IS - November 2008 U1 - Mohawk College Mark Yendt is a fulltime Faculty member in the Software Engineering Technology Department at Mohawk College. He graduated from the Chemical Engineering Technology Program at Mohawk College in 1983. Mark worked in the wastewater engineering industry with a focus on the development of process modeling software. In 1994, Mark was a co-recipient of the Harrison Prescott Eddy Medal for Noteworthy Research awarded by the Water Environment Federation. His current research activities include software process visualization and optimization of systems using the HL7v3 standard. U2 - Mohawk College Duane Bender is a licensed Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in Ontario and a fulltime Faculty member in the Software Engineering Technology Department at Mohawk College. He graduated from the Computer Engineering and Management program at McMaster University in 1996 and is currently enrolled in the McMaster MBA program. Duane is the founding faculty member of the MARC HI, and performs Applied Research in the area of eHealth. His current research interests include building large scale eHealth systems using ESB and SOA architectures and the IHE, CDA, DICOM and HL7v3 standards. U3 - Mohawk College Brian Minaji graduated from Computer System Technology at Mohawk College in 1986. He worked as an IT professional in a number of different industries for the next 15 years. In 2001, he joined the faculty of Software Engineering Technology at Mohawk College. He has been involved with the MARC HI project since its inception. His research interests include helping build the Canadian EHRS Reference Implementation. ER -