ebBP Editor

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ebBP Editor

• METU-SRDC

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ebBP Editor

• A user friendly open source tool designed to help
  the users in creating generic as well as domain
  specific Business Processes.
• The editor lets the user to create ebBP instances
  from scratch or use the existing ones
• The latest release is available at
  Sourceforge.net

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ebBP Editor

• The ebBP Editor consists of two main components
• XmlStylist
• Expert Mode
• create, modify and also validate ebBP instances
  through tree representation
• Graphical Component Pane
• Drag and Drop based interaction

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All the code can be automatically generated
through the ebBP Editor Available in Public Domain
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Integrating Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)

• IHE specifies an implementation framework to
  facilitate the integration of healthcare
  information resources
• The IHE IT Infrastructure Technical Framework
  IHE-ITI-1, IHE-ITI-2 identifies a subset of the
  functional components of the healthcare
  enterprise
• IHE Actors (Roles in ebBP)
• IHE Transactions (ebBP Collaborations)
• More specifically, IHE transactions define how IT
  systems communicate by using existing standards
  such as HL7

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IHE Profiles

• IHE Interoperability Profiles are
• Business processes describing selected real-world
  scenarios (use-cases)
• They specify the IT systems or applications
  involved in a use case (Actors)
• They specify the Transactions involved in a use
  case
• They specify interfaces by restricting the use of
  the existing standards such as HL7 or DICOM to
  accomplish a specific transaction
• They specify the choreography of the involved
  transactions

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An Example IHE XDS Profile
Provide Register Document Set (ITI-15)
XDS Document Source
XDS Document Repository
Register Document (Set ITI-14)
Retrieve Document (ITI-17)
XDS Document Registry
Query Registry (ITI-16)
Patient Identity Feed (ITI-08)
Document Consumer
Patient Identity Source
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IHE Profiles and ebBP

• An IHE Profile is, in fact, a Business Process
• Configuration management in IHE is not easy
  especially when Actors are grouped to produce
  combined business processes!
• Therefore configuration management should be
  delegated as much as possible to the computers
  since they process fast and are less error prone
  than humans
• This can only be possible by describing the IHE
  Profiles through
• A standard, and
• A machine processable business process
  specification language
• IHE Profiles can be represented through ebBP
• Dogaç A., et. al, ebBP Profile for Integrating
  Healthcare Enterprise (IHE), Draft OASIS
  Profile, June 2006

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What does ebBP Provide to IHE Profiles?
Consider the Business combined Process for IHE
XDS, ATNA and PIX obtained through grouping
related Actors

• When an IHE business process is defined through
  ebBP, an Actor taking part in the process knows
  in a machine processable way
• The business collaborations it will be a part of
• Its roles in the collaborations
• The Actors it will communicate with
• The documents it will send and receive
• The choreography of all the transactions it will
  execute

XDS Document Source
The Business Collaborations involving ITI-19,
ITI-8, ITI-15
XDS Document Source, PIX Consumer, ATNA Secure
Node
XDS Document Repository, PIX Manager

Defined in Business Collaborations
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Example XDS ATNA - PIX