HSVO: a functional XML specification for integrating simulation devices

Although we live in a time where systems and sen/ices are combined and integrated in more and more useful ways, there are still many data silos. Simulation for healthcare education is a notable example where although there has been a proliferation of devices and services there Is little connectivity or integration between them. The MedBlquitous Virtual Patient specification affords a degree of sharing of content but not runtime data and there Is nothing that these other forms to this model. The Healthcare Services Virtual Organization (HSVO) project has developed an XML-based messaging specification as part of a network-enabled platform that can connect, run, control and exchange data between any services connected to its messaging bus. Middleware interfaces essentially 'wrap' each service translating Its native functions Into a set of common actions and parameters to be exchanged with other services on the bus. The HSVO NEP also involves the use of lightpaths and services that include the Open Labyrinth virtual patient platform, the Laerdal SimMan 3G, stereoscopic and tomographic datasets, physiological algorithms and camera arrays. This presentation will present the rationale for the specification, the XML model itself and examples of how it works in practice.