Medical integration environment

Medical integration environment (MIE) are specialised tools designed to simplify the sharing of medical and related data between medical equipment and electronic health records.{{Cite journal |last1=Boonstra |first1=Albert |last2=Versluis |first2=Arie |last3=Vos |first3=Janita F. J. |date=2014-09-04 |title=Implementing electronic health records in hospitals: a systematic literature review |journal=BMC Health Services Research |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=370 |doi=10.1186/1472-6963-14-370 |doi-access=free |issn=1472-6963 |pmc=4162964 |pmid=25190184}} Technically, they are similar to an Enterprise Service Bus but with several extra features allowing for legacy systems that do not use web services messaging. Typically, they use Java Message Service; most Enterprise Application Integration systems can be modified to be used as an MIE but may lack the crucial HL7 and Arden syntax for storing medical knowledge.