Patent ID: 7653634

Claim:
A method for distributing healthcare data from a source node to one or more destination nodes selectable from one or more distributed computing nodes in a data communication network exchanging healthcare information, the method comprising steps of: at the source node: in response to receipt of the healthcare information analyzing the healthcare information; Responsive to analyzing the healthcare information, generating a topic including the healthcare information and a list of participating nodes determined from the healthcare information; Generating a payload for distribution of the healthcare information, wherein the payload comprises the topic and a destination node list identifying the list of participating nodes; and Streaming the payload to a plurality of redundant rendezvous payload processors; at a rendezvous payload processor from the plurality of redundant rendezvous payload processors: Receiving the payload; Retrieving the destination nodes from the destination node list; and Putting a copy of the payload into at least one destination node queue, each destination node queue corresponding to a respective destination node from the destination node list; at each destination nodes upon determination that the destination node queue contains the payload, downloading the payload from the destination node queue to the destination node; Retrieving the topic from the payload; and Utilizing the healthcare information included in the topic according to destination node requirements; and At a redundant rendezvous payload processor from the plurality of redundant rendezvous payload processors: Accessing the destination node list to determine at least one destination node; and Putting a copy of the payload into a respective destination node queue corresponding to said at least one destination node.