Professor Dr. Coşkun ATAY
Izmir University of Economics, Faculty of Computer Sciences
Department of Software Engineering 35330 Balçova
Izmir, TURKEY
Abstract: This paper presents a software application called Admission-Discharge-Transfer (ADT) Gateway Interface. This interface uses the Health Level 7 (HL7) standard to bridge the hospital computer systems for maintaining hospital bed occupancy. ADT Gateway Interface is a Microsoft VB.NET application that utilizes the Microsoft Windows TCP/IP socket to communicate with the Hospital Information System (HIS) ADT System. Received messages are processed using a custom Microsoft Windows DLL called HL7Messaging DLL and information presented inside these messages are put into a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database. Hospital computer systems reach to this SQL Server 2005 database to examine the bed occupancy in the hospital. Furthermore, states and errors of this ADT Gateway Interface are recorded. This helps design engineers in measuring performance and observing failures and recoveries. This may require detailed log information from this application. In this study, a robust logging viewer design methodology is used to improve reliability and consistency of the overall integrated system.
Plenary Speaker's Brief Biography: Dr. Coşkun Atay received his BSc degree (1983) from Industrial Engineering Department of M. E. Technical University. Then he received his Masters (1986) and Ph.D. (1992) degrees both in Computer Science from Florida Institute of Technology, and City University of New York, USA under a Ministry of Education scholarship. During his doctoral study, he taught courses on C, UNIX, Computer Architecture and Microcomputers at Brooklyn College of CUNY. His doctoral thesis was on parallelization of Constraint Logic Programming. At Periphonics Corporation on facsimile imaging system, at Information Builders on migration of Focus database to 64-bit architectures, at Royalblue Technologies on Nasdaq electronic trading systems, at Citibank on ATM software release migration, and at UBS Investment Bank on global SWIFT interface project, as Software Engineer and Project Manager for 12 years from1992 to 2004. He is a professor at Izmir University of Economics, Software Engineering Department since 2004. He is member of IEEE and Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Organization overseeing government sponsored research projects.
