- similar to: partially, Intersystems
dbMotion presents itself as a SOA-based platform enabling medical information interoperability and HIE. It is made up of several layers (from data integration, the lowest, to presentation, the highest) which are tied together and present to the exterior a 'unified medical schema', a patient-centric medical record. A business layer does data aggregation.
There are also a few other components such as shared services (which deals with, among others, unique patient identification). UMS is based on HL7 V3 Reference Information Model. Other features include custom views into the data, data-triggered events, and an EMR gateway.
As I understand it, without having seen it in an actual deployment, dbMotion's offering is similar to Intersystems' Ensemble, without the underlying infrastructure (no Cache included, it relies on the user's database), but with the HealthShare component (so it offers healthcare-specific application infrastructure, whereas Intersystems' offerings are more segmented). What would be the benefit, compared to Ensemble? It does not take a whole Cache installation so it might (?) be cheaper, and the dev skills might be more widespread; it also is more mainstream-RAD. It seems to be a solution for patching together an existing infrastructure, whether my feeling about Ensemble is that it would perhaps work best with a brand new setup.
Interestingly enough, dbMotion is developed using the Microsoft stack, and the company is in fact a Microsoft partner.What I don't quite get from the description is how does HL7 interfacing work with dbMotion - UMS is (perhaps logically) based on the (XML-based) HL7.v3 RIM, but is there a conversion mechanism to the other versions? How about v2 endpoints?
