Cloverleaf Suite: Web Services vs IHE Infrastructure adapter

Here is a brief description of all of our modules.

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   Cloverleaf Data Integrator – Provides Cloverleaf to database integration. Supports disparate database management systems. Integrate and interoperate your Cloverleaf environment to single or multi-vendor database management systems. ODBC. Not needed on Windows OS.

   Cloverleaf Global Monitor (GM) – Monitor and control your Cloverleaf environments from anywhere, anytime, within a single Web browser.

   Cloverleaf High Availability (HA) – Allows your systems and applications to continue sending and receiving messages to each other.

   Cloverleaf IHE Infrastructure Adaptor (IHE) – Facilitates health information exchange seamlessly between systems and settings within and across healthcare enterprises. IHE Bridge. http://www.ihe.net/#.

   Cloverleaf Intelligent Health Broker (IHB) – Acts as a web services adapter for producing and consuming web services in Cloverleaf environments.

   Cloverleaf Message Warehouse – Single Database Management System (DBMS) Healthcare Data Analysis

   Cloverleaf Security Server – Add-on module includes two security solutions designed to protect you and your enterprise from unauthorized data access. Advanced Security is one of the three security modes you can run a Cloverleaf root level at (the others being none and basic). You need to install security server on a different server from the Cloverleaf host server in order to implement advanced security mode.

   Cloverleaf Secure Courier (CSC) – Secure data exchange and remote connectivity connects you to multiple healthcare providers’ offices so you can efficiently send and receive data.

   Secure Messenger – Secure Message is the license to turn-on the SSL components of Cloverleaf. It enables SSL over TCP, http/s, ftps and sFTP. There is nothing to install except the license. If you attempt to use one of the SSL settings, with-out this license, Cloverleaf will error the message. It is listed in the license file (*-SSL-*).

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The web services adapter (CAA-WS) is the replacement for IHB. IHB is no longer supported in newer version of Cloverleaf. CAA-WS is a protocol, like pdl-tcpip and fileset-local. It allows Cloverleaf to consume data via a web service and convert it to a Cloverleaf message object.

IHE is similar to HL7 variants in that it provides a framework within Cloverleaf to work with exchange documents (CCD’s).

To best work with exchange documents, you would need CAA-WS and IHE or else you’d be writing a lot of your own custom code.

Direct is in beta now, and we are looking for a customer so we can release it GA.

We are not acting as the HISP, but we can use the CAA-Direct component, built on the Java Driver, to send Direct emails out and retrieve them from a HISP in/out of Cloverleaf.

I don’t know either at this time. I’ll provide more information as it becomes available.

Thank you.

Not sure what kind of workflow would have us retrieve a message from a HISP – maybe another message over a different protocol would be used to trigger a retrieval? I don’t know anything about working with HISPs – can specific messages be retrieved, or do you just get all available messages for a recipient?

What about acting as the recipient – can the DIRECT adapter receive or intercept an incoming DIRECT message and then apply automation to the contents/headers?

For Cloverleaf acting as a Direct recipient – you configure the driver to monitor a Direct email box on the HISP and any messages that are sent to that address will be received in Cloverleaf as a message.  You’ll get all available messages.

On outbound you can specify the send-to email address as well as the email server, so we’re able to talk to more than one HISP if necessary.

Can we create a new restful web service using CAA-WS. What about the security features, does it support the SAML.  How i can get more details on CAA-WS.