Abstract: The present invention provides a means for an enterprise, such as a health care facility, to receive messages from any one of a plurality of disparate, ancillary vendor applications, convert the vendor information to an enterprise usable form and then store the enterprise information on an enterprise database. The enterprise keeps vendor specific rules for converting each vendor's information to enterprise information. Additionally, relational enterprise rules are applied to the enterprise data stored in a enterprise database, so as disparate vendor information is converted to enterprise data, the relationships between that converted enterprise data are checked with the enterprise data stored in the enterprise database. Enterprise data can also be directly entered into the enterprise database from enterprise system clients, the relationships between that enterprise data are also checked with the enterprise data stored in the enterprise database.

Abstract: The present invention provides a means for an enterprise, such as a health care facility, to transfer preumbra enterprise data from any one of a plurality of disparate, ancillary vendor applications to a requestor. The particular strategy used for transferring the preumbra data depends on the type of preumbra data and how that data is formatted in the ancillary preumbra system database. Some ancillary preumbra system databases organize the preumbra data such that very little data processing is necessary by the enterprise application whenever the preumbra is retrieved. Those systems store preumbra data in a manner that is extremely conducive with accessing the preumbra data from the respective ancillary system's database in real-time and therefore can be accessed upon a request being received for the preumbra data. Some other ancillary preumbra systems store preumbra data such that it is impossible to access the requested preumbra data, aggregate it and then prepare it for presentation in near real-time.