EBSCOhost Integration Toolkit

The EBSCOhost Integration Toolkit (EIT) provides easy integration between EBSCO Publishing's online clinical resources, nursing care, patient education, medical research resources and all Electronic Health/Medical Records (EHR/EMR), decision support and patient record applications. The EBSCOhost Integration Toolkit (EIT) helps clinicians and nurses rapidly select topics from an EHR/EMR and retrieve the contextually relevant, evidence-based condition or procedure summary from an EBSCO resource such as DynaMed, Health Library or Nursing Reference Center. The EBSCOhost Integration Toolkit (EIT) dramatically reduces the cost and complexity of custom integration for hospital IT departments.

Improving service quality and reducing medical errors are critical success factors for health care providers today. Expanding the use of information technology and evidence-based medicine are two key practices being used to achieve these goals. The EBSCOhost Integration Toolkit (EIT) enables health care providers to connect these two initiatives and deliver the best available evidence to point-of-care users, such as: physicians, nurses, therapists, pharmacists and patients, directly at the patient's bedside and intelligently from within the EHR/EMR.

The EBSCOhost Integration Toolkit provides a comprehensive set of flexible integration options to establish direct links from EHR/EMR or other clinical applications, to applicable clinical reference resources from EBSCO. For example, support of the industry standard Infobutton allows easy integration from the EHR to the appropriate clinical reference, helping clinicians at the point-of-care to rapidly select topics from an EHR and retrieve the relevant, evidence-based condition or procedure summary from an EBSCO resource. EIT is optimized to enable hospitals to rapidly access EBSCO Publishing's point-of-care clinical, nursing and patient references, DynaMed, Nursing Reference Center, and patient education products, as well as all of our industry leading research databases such as CINAHL Plus with Full Text and MEDLINE with Full Text.

The EBSCOhost Integration Toolkit includes:

  • Web Service (XML Gateway): The EBSCO XML Gateway is a SOAP and REST compatible web service used to establish direct links from any EHR/EMR or Enterprise Search Engine application to applicable resources from EBSCO. The EBSCO XML Gateway provides customers with multiple integration methods, allowing them to submit customized and contextually based search and retrieval requests, as well as to tailor the format of the retrieved XML content to suit the needs of their users and web sites. Features of the EBSCO XML Gateway include:
    • Keyword, Subject, Image, Index, and Thesaurus search
    • Article retrieval
    • SmartLinks, CustomLinks, and Persistent Links
    • Support of multiple industry vocabularies including MeSH, CINAHL, ICD9, ICD10 and SNOMED-CT
    • SOAP and REST-like access
    • Secure (SSL) access – https support
    • Usage statistics reporting
    • Real-time updates

  • Enterprise Search Integration (ESI): ESI makes EBSCOhost database metadata content available to an Enterprise Search Application (ESA) search index. The end result is that an ESA user can search EBSCOhost content within an integrated result list in combination with other databases and local content, under one common interface. ESAs can index millions of structured and unstructured documents from several content sources, and can utilize internal/external taxonomies to present users with a rich search experience - far exceeding today’s Federated Search products in usability. Some of the most popular ESAs include: Endeca, FAST Search, Autonomy, Northern Light, Lucene/Solr, and Google Search Appliance.

    EBSCOhost can push article metadata with links back to the full text. Databases are accessible as XML via different mediums, including FTP. Incremental updates to the content are available in new XML files. This allows ESAs to index the content on their own time, and avoids the resource intensive processes and duplicate HTTP hits associated with web crawling.

  • SharePoint: EBSCO provides pre-built web parts and How To documentation, enabling organizations to embed the EBSCOhost experience directly into their SharePoint pages. EBSCO's web parts provide targeted access to relevant and timely information needed by today's medical and allied health professionals. Detailed documentation provides guidance to users choosing to create customized web parts. Because the web parts leverage existing EIT options such as RSS and web services, organizations have multiple options when choosing to deploy EBSCOhost web parts. EBSCO's SharePoint security model is based on full SSL (https) support available on EBSCOhost and implementation of web part security best practices. This dual security focus makes for an inherently secure and trusted SharePoint solution.

  • Learning Management System (LMS): Targeted eLearning content provides organizations with relevant, timely information applicable to a wide variety of job and business needs within the organization. Whether used as core learning activities or as reference material for existing eLearning content, users will be well served in their daily performance support and talent development activities. Design eLearning programs or augment existing programs with content on health care administration, sports medicine, public heath, diseases, alternative medicine, behavioral sciences, mental health and many others. Full LMS support is also provided for the CINAHL and MEDLINE products.

  • Persistent Links: Users can leverage EBSCO's persistent linking technology to rapidly embed direct and dynamic links into an application, portal or intranet. These persistent links use HTTP or URL syntax to direct users to specific topics, searches, journals or categories. The portal or intranet administrator can create, remove or change the persistent links at any time.

  • RSS Feeds: Users can set up continuously updating RSS-based content feeds for EBSCO's medical research databases. The content is presented as an active article heading, with links to the full text on EBSCOhost. Access to the content is seamless to the end user. The RSS option minimizes the bandwidth and content management burdens for the library or consortia portal, since the full text is only served when requested. The portal or intranet administrator can create, remove or change the RSS feeds at any time.

  • Z39.50 Access: Users can integrate EBSCO databases into a library ILS using the Z39.50 protocol. EBSCO provides a full range of Z39.50 compliant functionality, including:
    • Federated Search
      • Serial Solutions (360 Search)
      • MetaLib (Ex Libris)
    • Bibliographic Management software
      • EndNote (Thomson Reuters)
    • Library Catalog Portals
      • ENCompass (Endeavor)
      • Horizon Information Portal (SirsiDynix)
      • One Search (Follett)

  • OpenURL Linking: OpenURL linking enables users to integrate EBSCO products into their information systems and architecture. Supported functionality includes:
    • Full text article level linking via a Link Resolver
    • SFX (AM/RC)
    • Serial Solutions (Article Matcher)
    • LinkSource
    • PubMed Full Text linking
    • Google Scholar Full Text linking
    • EBSCOhost Connection

Customers using EIT can access detailed documentation and technical support here.

Contact:
EBSCO Publishing
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