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A new architecture for enterprise information systems.

H D Covvey1, J J Stumpf

  • 1University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Proceedings. AMIA Symposium
|November 24, 1999
PubMed
Summary

Healthcare institutions face IT challenges in creating shared services like virtual laboratories. New cooperative information systems architecture offers a solution for regional and national healthcare integration.

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Area of Science:

  • Health Informatics
  • Information Systems Engineering
  • Co-operative Information Systems

Background:

  • Economic and technical pressures drive healthcare institutions towards regionalized services, including consolidated or virtual laboratories.
  • Significant barriers exist, such as inadequate enterprise-level IT integration infrastructure, legacy systems, and nascent IT service organizations.
  • Current integration technologies are insufficient for fully realizing shared healthcare services.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To address the inadequacy of current IT integration technologies hindering shared healthcare services.
  • To propose a novel system architecture enabling intrinsic cooperation for healthcare services.
  • To extend this architecture for regional and national healthcare integration.

Main Methods:

  • Exploration of challenges in implementing shared healthcare services.
  • Leveraging principles from Co-operative Information Systems.
  • Development and extension of a cooperation-enabled system architecture.

Main Results:

  • Identification of state-of-the-art integration technology limitations.
  • Proposal of a new intrinsically cooperation-enabled system architecture.
  • Demonstration of the architecture's scalability to regional and national levels.

Conclusions:

  • Existing IT infrastructure and integration technologies present substantial barriers to shared healthcare services.
  • A new cooperation-enabled system architecture is proposed to overcome these barriers.
  • The architecture provides a scalable foundation for regional and national healthcare service integration.

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