Using PROVA-Rule Engine as Dispatching-Service for FHIR-Observation-Resources
Abstract
In a clinical medical environment, vital signs of patients a recrucial information. In order to have the right information at the right time available, they need to be evaluated during the storage-process and then be submitted to special store-containers or to alerting-servers. To achieve the goal of observation-information-based dispatching, a rule engine is used to be highly flexible in the evaluation of health parameters and limits. The assumption is that such a declarative rule-based service is easier to maintain, and can also work in a distributed way. The distribution of the rule-engine is in the setting of a clinic-group (wheremany hospitals work together) fundamental to allow each hospital to work independently of the others.
