Medical integration environment (MIE) are specialised tools designed to simplify the sharing of medical and related data between medical equipment and electronic health records. Technically, they are similar to an

Enterprise Service Bus An enterprise service bus (ESB) implements a communication system between mutually interacting software applications in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). It represents a software architecture for distributed computing, and is a special vari ...

but with several extra features allowing for legacy systems that do not use web services messaging. Typically, they use

Java Message Service The Jakarta Messaging API (formerly Java Message Service or JMS API) is a Java application programming interface (API) for message-oriented middleware. It provides generic messaging models, able to handle the producer–consumer problem, that can ...

; most Enterprise Application Integration systems can be modified to be used as an MIE but may lack the crucial HL7 and

Arden syntax Arden syntax is a markup language designed for representing and sharing medical knowledge in a standardized, executable format. It is primarily used by clinical decision support systems to generate alerts, interpretations, and manage information ...

for storing medical knowledge.

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