Web service-oriented enterprise architecture for mobility support in prescription management

This paper presents Web service-oriented enterprise architecture to support access of authorized physicians, pharmacists, and patients to prescription management system via mobile devices and Web browsers on a 24 × 7 basis. The paper also presents our demonstration prototype of the prescription management system using J2ME Web services. The key functions implemented in the demonstration prototype include detecting drug interactions and issuing a warning to prescribing physician to prevent health-threatening drug interactions, validating prescriptions, processing prescriptions from prescribing physician´s office to pharmacy of patient´s choice, managing drug knowledge-base, managing drug inventory, and processing bills.