CSAM Plexus is based on the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles. This makes it well suited for adapting to current and future requirements from customers and the healthcare industry.
Below is listed some of the foundations/requirements/ideas behind the current CSAM Plexus architecture (not prioritized order):
- Based on well defined standards
- Use known and industry leading framework and software
- Easy to adopt to new customers and local regulations
- Based on SOA principle
- Component based for reuse across applications
- Flexibility in storing full history, metainfo/indexed info/no info in order to give a real life picture to the clinicians
- Scalable in all directions
- No one vendor strategy
- Adapt to “any” customer environments
- Open to customer and partners for reuse and modifications
The figure below illustrates the conceptual architecture of CSAM Plexus.
Plexus Brainware, illustrated as the black-box in the centre of the figure above, have functionality for integrating with source systems, and making that information available for applications – from local storage or online requests – which are build on top of Plexus Brainware. The integration component of Plexus Brainware can serve as both an enterprise integration engine, a local integration engine or just as the interface between CSAM Plexus and the surrounding applications.
Plexus Brainware has an extremely flexible security architecture, enabling authentication towards everything from a flat file to biometrics. Authorization is build into the core of Plexus Brainware and plays an important role in giving and rejecting users access to clinical information. This security component also controls access to external application through SSO.
Plexus Brainware have a huge set of application services, which are being used by all CSAM Plexus application, in addition to being available for partners and customers. This making it possible for them to build their own application based on the information in Plexus Brainware or simply make a an add-on to one of the existing CSAM Plexus application.