Strategies for Healthcare Information Systems

It is widely recognized that the healthcare industry does not use information technology to its full potential. This book uncovers many of the reasons why large-scale implementation of healthcare information systems has not come to fruition yet. The authors provide a broad coverage of the field, ranging from strategic analysis to real-life project implementation. Moreover the book provides strategies to avoid pitfalls and direct your healthcare organization to strategic use of healthcare information systems. This section of the book will introduce the five main themes of the book and will show that the healthcare organizations are realistic laboratories for the information and communication technology scientists to do research. The five main themes are: Strategy, Network Healthcare Chain, Process Management, Knowledge Management, Standardization.

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An Agent-Oriented, Workflow-Based Mobile Framework for Implementing Interoperable Healthcare Information Systems

International Journal of Privacy and Health Information Management ◽

10.4018/ijphim.2017070107 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 114-134

Author(s):

Vassiliki Koufi ◽

Flora Malamateniou ◽

George Vassilacopoulos

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

Process Management ◽

Service Oriented Architecture ◽

Healthcare Organizations ◽

Sustainable Business ◽

Healthcare Information ◽

Healthcare Information Systems ◽

Uniform Interface ◽

Efficient Delivery ◽

Service Oriented

Healthcare is an increasingly collaborative enterprise involving many individuals and organizations that coordinate their efforts toward promoting quality and efficient delivery of healthcare. To these ends, today, more than any other point in time, increased reliance is being placed on interoperability among healthcare information systems (HIS) which have been developed as monolithic, stand-alone systems without significant interfaces between them. Enabling heterogeneous HIS to interact within a Service-oriented architecture (SOA), such as a Web Services architecture, can help healthcare organizations to consistently deliver sustainable business value, with increased agility and cost effectiveness, in line with changing business needs. However, in the context of a SOA approach, issues of semantic interoperability still remain unresolved while new challenges arise regarding web service interoperability. This paper presents a mediation framework which provides a uniform interface to the underlying HIS and is accessible via Android-enabled devices. The proposed framework is based on the agent paradigm for both healthcare process management and management of interactions among the participating systems. The healthcare processes and all interactions involved in each process are described according to the workflow metaphor.

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An Agent-Oriented, Workflow-Based Mobile Framework for Implementing Interoperable Healthcare Information Systems

Health Care Delivery and Clinical Science ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-3926-1.ch015 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 315-337

Author(s):

V. Koufi ◽

F. Malamateniou ◽

G. Vassilacopoulos

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

Process Management ◽

Service Oriented Architecture ◽

Healthcare Organizations ◽

Sustainable Business ◽

Healthcare Information ◽

Healthcare Information Systems ◽

Uniform Interface ◽

Service Oriented ◽

Healthcare Process

Healthcare is an increasingly collaborative enterprise involving many individuals and organizations that coordinate their efforts toward promoting quality and efficient delivery of healthcare. To these ends, today, more than any other point in time, increased reliance is being placed on interoperability among healthcare information systems (HIS) which have been developed as monolithic, stand-alone systems without significant interfaces between them. Enabling heterogeneous HIS to interact within a Service-oriented architecture (SOA), such as a Web Services architecture, can help healthcare organizations to consistently deliver sustainable business value, with increased agility and cost effectiveness, in line with changing business needs. However, in the context of a SOA approach, issues of semantic interoperability still remain unresolved while new challenges arise regarding web service interoperability. This paper presents a mediation framework which provides a uniform interface to the underlying HIS and is accessible via Android-enabled devices. The proposed framework is based on the agent paradigm for both healthcare process management and management of interactions among the participating systems. The healthcare processes and all interactions involved in each process are described according to the workflow metaphor.

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Using Agent and Workflow Technologies for the Implementation of Interoperable Healthcare Information Systems

Advances in Healthcare Information Systems and Administration - Interoperability in Healthcare Information Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-3000-0.ch008 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 211-231

Author(s):

Vassiliki Koufi ◽

Flora Malamateniou ◽

George Vassilacopoulos

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

System Architecture ◽

Process Management ◽

Service Oriented Architecture ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Healthcare Information ◽

Healthcare Information Systems ◽

Server Side ◽

Geographically Dispersed ◽

High Flexibility

Healthcare is an increasingly collaborative enterprise involving many individuals and organizations that coordinate their efforts toward promoting quality and efficient delivery of healthcare through the use of interoperable healthcare information systems (HIS). Service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides a cost-effective solution to implementing interoperability between heterogeneous HIS which have resulted from extensive investments that most healthcare organizations have made in system resources over the course of many years. However, issues of semantic interoperability still remain unresolved while new challenges arise regarding web service interoperability. This chapter presents a mediator-based approach for achieving data and service interoperability among disparate and geographically dispersed HIS. The proposed system architecture provides a uniform interface to the underlying HIS, thus enabling decoupling of the client applications and the server-side implementations while it ensures security in all transactions. It is a distributed system architecture based on the agent paradigm for both healthcare process management and management of interactions among the participating systems. The healthcare processes and all interactions involved in each process are described according to the workflow metaphor. Thus, robustness, high flexibility and fault tolerance are provided in an environment as dynamic and heterogeneous as healthcare.

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