CSAM Plexus Brainware is based on the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles. This gives users the power to adapt to both current needs and any future requirements which may arise from customers, regulatory changes and the healthcare industry.
The key features which make Brainware a best-of-breed are
- It is based on well-defined standards
- It uses f known, industry-leading software
- It is easy to adapt to specific customer and regulatory requirements
- The component-based structure allows reuse of components across applications. Customers and partners are free to reuse and modify the component
- It has flexibility in storing full history, meta-information, and indexed information to give a real life picture to the clinicians
- It is fully scalable
- The flexibility of the interfacing allow users freedom to choose ‘best-of-breed’ systems, rather than being locked into a ‘one vendor strategy’
- It can be adapted to any customer environments
The figure below illustrates the conceptual architecture of CSAM Plexus.
Plexus Brainware, shown as the black-box in the centre of the above figure, allows the full integration of source systems, making information available to the other applications linked to the Plexus Brainware. The versatility of Plexus Brainware means it can serve as an full enterprise integration engine, a local integration engine or simply as the interface between CSAM Plexus and the surrounding applications.
Plexus Brainware has extremely flexible security architecture, enabling authentication by everything from a flat file to a full biometric system. Authorisation is built into the core of Plexus Brainware and plays an important role in giving (and rejecting where necessary) user access to clinical information. This security component also controls access to external application through SSO.
Plexus Brainware has a very large set of application services which, in addition to being available for partners and customers, is used by all CSAM Plexus applications. This allows customers and partners to build their own application based on the information in Plexus Brainware, or to make a customised add-on to one of the existing CSAM Plexus application.