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New Zealand Cancer Registry, Ministry of HealthPeter MeierSoftware Architect, Solnet Solutions

IBM Insight Forum 09®

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2About: Solnet Solutions

Systems integrator andEnterprise application solutions providerEnterprise application solutions providerCapabilities

User interaction and collaborationUser interaction and collaborationIntegration and enterprise servicesInformation managementgInfrastructure and operationsEnterprise architecture and strategy

Local, privately held company; offices inWellington (HQ) and Auckland, 120+ staff

IBM business partnerLong standing successful relationship with MoH



3About: New Zealand Cancer Registry

National registry for cancer diagnosis informationAccurate data forAccurate data for

Clinical and epidemiological researchHealth services planning and fundingHealth services planning and funding

NZ Cancer Registry started in 1948Second oldest population based registry in the worldSecond oldest population-based registry in the world

NZ legislatedL b t i i d t id th l tLaboratories required to provide pathology reports

Obligations to WHOI t ti l Cl ifi ti f Di f O lInternational Classification of Diseases for Oncology



4Business Drivers for Redevelopment

Better alignment with business processes

Improvement of data quality and accuracy

Improvement of usability

Increase of productivity



5NZCR Information Flow

PDF

Pathology

HL7Old NZCR

reportsCancer Events

Mortality Reference

Code tables

NMDS National Health Index



6NZCR Architecture

PDF

Pathology

HL7Old NZCR

reportsCancer Events

Mortality Reference

Code tables

NMDS National Health Index



7NZCR Architecture

NZCR is composite Web services applicationBusiness Web servicesBusiness Web servicesReference data access Web servicesUtility Web servicesUtility Web services

Accessed through rich client (based on Eclipse RCP)Follows principles and best practices of SOAFollows principles and best practices of SOARuns on

IBM W b h A li ti S dIBM Websphere Application Server andIBM DB2 database server



8Challenges and Solutions

Usability

Data Quality

Performance management

Security



9Challenge: Usability



10Challenge: Usability



11Challenge: Data Quality

Accuracy and high data qualityRules engine based validationRules engine based validationReal-time validationModified model view controllerModified model-view-controller

ControllerController

Model ViewRules Engine

Business Rules

Data validation in UI and Web service




Migration of historical data Erroneous data (?!)Erroneous data (?!)

WarningsErrorsErrorsPrior errors

Dedicated UI for QA search



14Challenge: PerformanceLoad

1 Batch

TimeDaily window Nightly window

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1

Load

2 n3 n Batches…Time

Daily window Nightly window (reserved)

LoadMicro Batches

etch

Save

Save ave …

TimeBatch interval (typically 2 hours)

Fe SS S …



15Challenge: Performance



16Challenge: Security

Security aspects

Authentication with SSOSecurity assertionSecurity assertion

AuthorisationSecurity assertion with role attributesSecurity assertion with role attributes

Integrity protectionDi it l i t ( l l)Digital signature (message level)

Confidentiality protectionE ti ( l l)Encryption (message level)



17Authentication (SSO)11

2Credential Cache

SAML Asserting PartyKerberos

Web Service Consumer

3

54

Assertion

Web Service Provider

SecureToken Service

Trust

SAML Relying Party SAML Authority



18Message Protection

Transport security

Message security

Client ServerProxy

security

Client

Web Service Consumer

Server

Web Service Provider

Proxy

signed with private key signed with private key

Service request Service response

g p yencrypted with public key

g p yencrypted with public key



19Summary

Success factorsEarly customer involvementEarly customer involvementPain points and business needs addressed

Usability quality assurance integrationUsability, quality assurance, integrationLive for almost 1 year

stable no patches or new releases sincestable, no patches or new releases sinceHappy customer

“The new system has streamlined the collection and coding of cancer information. It dramatically reduces the manual handling of data and allows electronic storage and retrieval of pathology reports, and more g p gy pefficient quality assurance processes.”

-- Susan Hanna, Cancer Registry Team Leader, Ministry of Health --



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