Information Exchange 1

[LonnieJohnson]

I work for an agency that does child placing for our State. We have a system built using ASP.net (VS2010) and SQL Server 2012. With the Health Information Exchange gaining momentum we wanted to know if it is hard to build a process to exchange information with other organizations.

How hard is it to connect systems between organizations? Has anyone has to do that yet?

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[jbenson001]

We built an API using Microsoft's Entity Framework.
We created a REST service layer. Our clients can call our API via URL with authentication keys and headers. They can use JSON or XML and it will return a JSON object or XML.

Another approach you can take is to use web services.

 

[LonnieJohnson]

Thanks jbenson001,

You have never ceased to amaze me. I don't code much anymore. Mostly doing management and administrative stuff so I don't get to post a lot of request or tips.

Anyway, that sounds interesting and worth looking into. We currently have some web services we do with various institutions so we are keen on that. I am going to read up on the first suggestion you gave.

Thanks again,

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[jbenson001]

Glad I could help
Using the entity framework along with LINQ will be a learning curve, but very interesting. Also, It will be consumable by anyone through any browser. Sometimes, webservices cannot be accessed by a shop that is not using Microsoft technologies.

 

[jbenson001]

And thank you for the compliment!