rumtk-v2
Organization: MedicalMasses L.L.C.
Rust based open source HL7 v2 interface and integration framework
About
RUMTK is an Open Source project with the goal to build an all-in-one, Rust-based universal framework in Healthcare. The idea is to enable development of common automation projects, such as local dashboards, using Rust. Why? It should lead to more efficient software in the long term while leveraging the Rust ecosystem to enable web applets and backend tooling.
The current focus of RUMTK is the development of HL7 V2 and Hl7 FHIR tooling. Hospitals have used the V2 protocol to have different systems and software vendors interoperate and integrate. Your clinic EHR uses V2 to communicate with the Hospital EHR to obtain your patient records. Due to the legacy nature of V2, this is not something that can be done in as secure a manner as accessing your Google account and thus integrations between clinics and hospitals is poor. By the way, your radiologist also uses V2 to be able to submit reports to clinics and hospitals. Now, implementation of V2 has been poor from the vendor side and yet it is the very first step for a seamless migration to the new FHIR protocol. Informaticists, clinicians, and IT professionals working in the hospital agree that FHIR is the way to go forward. As a developer with years of experience on both, we agree as well. RUMTK currently focuses on facilitating legacy system interoperability with the hospital while allowing the core EHR and Hospital Information Systems to upgrade to FHIR without fear. We believe in a world in which the patient's records move where the patient goes upon authorization by the patient. Migrating to FHIR is the first step forward.
The first few subframeworks developed for RUMTK are rumtk-core, rumtk-hl7-v2, and rumtk-web. For our current effort, we seek donations to complete and mature the HL7 V2 interface toolkit. A lot of the work was done during Luis' off hours for the past 2 years, but now we, Luis and team, lack the time and funding to finalize this work. If you find our interface work of use and value, please help us fund the project. Our ultimate goal is to build a set of tools that allow for a v2 to FHIR bridge solution.
For a look at the project's GitHub repository, please go to https://github.com/MedicalMasses-L-L-C/rumtk.
The current focus of RUMTK is the development of HL7 V2 and Hl7 FHIR tooling. Hospitals have used the V2 protocol to have different systems and software vendors interoperate and integrate. Your clinic EHR uses V2 to communicate with the Hospital EHR to obtain your patient records. Due to the legacy nature of V2, this is not something that can be done in as secure a manner as accessing your Google account and thus integrations between clinics and hospitals is poor. By the way, your radiologist also uses V2 to be able to submit reports to clinics and hospitals. Now, implementation of V2 has been poor from the vendor side and yet it is the very first step for a seamless migration to the new FHIR protocol. Informaticists, clinicians, and IT professionals working in the hospital agree that FHIR is the way to go forward. As a developer with years of experience on both, we agree as well. RUMTK currently focuses on facilitating legacy system interoperability with the hospital while allowing the core EHR and Hospital Information Systems to upgrade to FHIR without fear. We believe in a world in which the patient's records move where the patient goes upon authorization by the patient. Migrating to FHIR is the first step forward.
The first few subframeworks developed for RUMTK are rumtk-core, rumtk-hl7-v2, and rumtk-web. For our current effort, we seek donations to complete and mature the HL7 V2 interface toolkit. A lot of the work was done during Luis' off hours for the past 2 years, but now we, Luis and team, lack the time and funding to finalize this work. If you find our interface work of use and value, please help us fund the project. Our ultimate goal is to build a set of tools that allow for a v2 to FHIR bridge solution.
For a look at the project's GitHub repository, please go to https://github.com/MedicalMasses-L-L-C/rumtk.
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