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| Healthcare organizations can continue to take full advantage of existing systems, while integrating siloed patient data and sharing common services across multiple systems and processes |
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| SOA and Healthcare |
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Achieving the goal of having the right data on the right patient available to the right person in the right place at the right time depends heavily on being able to access and consolidate patient information from many sources and systems across the full breadth of the health system. Delivering on the promises of an interoperable e-health record is a real challenge in an environment that is traditionally rife with disparate silos of information and IT systems – both departmental and organizational-wide – that don’t talk to one another. By using an SOA approach, however, healthcare organizations can continue to take full advantage of existing systems, while integrating the siloed patient and organizational data within those systems and sharing common services (i.e., functional components) across multiple systems and processes.
Examples of Web services that could be implemented within a healthcare organization might include: order lab test, enter nursing note, access patient record, view diagnostic image, request supplies, discharge patient, order meds, validate health card, create invoice and many more. It is likely that these pieces of functionality already exist multiple times in many different applications within the enterprise. In an SOA environment, a single, standardized Web service for each of these can be developed and made accessible by as many applications/systems as necessary, thus simplifying application development and maintenance and facilitating the interoperability of applications and data across the organization.
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