Pivotal tc Server is headed in the right direction and is a no brainer to implement
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use a Pivotal tc Server on a virtual machine that receives HL7 messages from our food management system called Computrition, this server communicates with our other down stream systems like patient tv terminals and gets data from our EMR. This servers solves the problem of allowing us to send and receive patient data securely
Pros
- send a receive HL7 message securely
- details issues and errors in logs
- very reliable uptime record with no system crashes
Cons
- User management and administration access account setup has room for improvement and can be more user friendly and clearly list how many admin accounts we can setup
- password complexity for user accounts need to be updated
- although all logs list all errors some of the tomcat errors are not time stamped
Most Important Features
- securely sending HL7 messages
- lightweight and does not eat too much ram, or storage resources
- strong reliability uptime numbers
Return on Investment
- one positive is that we can securely send patient data across to our food service dept.
- another positive is that we can integrate the communication with our patient tv terminals
- third positive is that there is less downtime because it is reliable
Alternatives Considered
CentOS Linux
Other Software Used
Laserfiche, Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft Azure Active Directory