Is SOA a solution to Healthcare Information Systems interoperability?

Author

Mantzana, V. ; Koumaditis, K. ; Themistocleous, Marinos

Author_Institution

Dept. of Digital Syst., Univ. of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece

fYear

2010

fDate

3-5 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Healthcare organizations seek to provide services of high quality and profound safety through Healthcare Information Systems (HIS). Despite significant efforts that have been made, the lack of interoperability still affects the services provided to the patient and citizen (diagnosis, treatment, prescribing, and rehabilitation). In this paper we (a) propose a novel healthcare services classification, (b) discuss HIS as well as the problems related to them and (c) suggest that the implementation of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) can increase the interoperability among systems and hence the quality of healthcare services.

Keywords

health care; information services; medical information systems; open systems; patient diagnosis; patient treatment; service-oriented architecture; Healthcare Information Systems; SOA; healthcare organizations; healthcare services classification; interoperability; patient diagnosis; patient rehabilitation; patient treatment; prescribing; service oriented architecture; Business; Computer architecture; Humans; Picture archiving and communication systems; Telemedicine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB), 2010 10th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Corfu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6559-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITAB.2010.5687601

Filename

5687601