SOA Solutions for Healthcare from Red Hat

As a healthcare provider, you are faced with a combination of operational, regulatory, and informational challenges. Your organization must manage a complex set of public/private information partner relationships, which are further complicated by the growth of the data over time. Integration of information is a key factor of the many decisions that drive everything from research to management of the clinical patient data.

A service-oriented architecture (SOA) for healthcare must address issues of data and communications interoperability. Traditional SOA technologies ignore the data, only tackling the issue of protocols and application and service integration. Healthcare organizations are turning to the Red Hat SOA technology to address both data, communication, and integration issues.

A Better Way to Work with Data Across Diverse Systems

SOA solutions for healthcare from Red Hat begin with the JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform (EDSP). JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform is a powerful set of tools and runtime components that enable your applications and business processes to easily integrate and use data from many data sources, enabling you to "turn the data you have into the information you need." JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform includes tools for creating data views that are accessible through standard protocols, a repository for storing metadata and a server runtime environment that provides enterprise-class performance, data integrity, and security. It allows multiple, distributed data sources - relational databases, XML, flat files, web services, HL7 - to be transformed into a single, read/writable data source with a single common interface. With EDSP, your healthcare organization can create unified views of your data.

Once data has been converted into a more useful form, it can be integrated with other systems and provisioned as services through the Enterprise Services Bus (ESB) that is included in EDSP. The ESB provides advanced message routing and transformation, registry capabilities and support for a variety of protocols and formats. Business rules execution allow for intelligent handling of business events and messages. Process orchestration enables application, data and rules services to be integrated into a business process flow.

Web services built on the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform can be connected to the Enterprise Data Services Platform to process the data being routed by the ESB and transformed through Data Services.


"A service-oriented architecture does not solve your data problem; it merely exposes it..."


Electronic Medical Records

Sophisticated electronic medical records (EMRs) offer web service interfaces for integration. Unfortunately, these web service interfaces are often difficult-to-use and have limited security and auditing capabilities.

EDSP works smoothly with EMRs to present a standardized web interface that also integrates security and auditing capabilities. Applications can then securely access this standardized interface via web services to modify patient data.


Single View of the Patient

Patient data is frequently scattered across multiple databases. JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform provides a single read/write view into multiple databases - like InterSystems Caché. Physicians can now have a single view of a patient instead of consulting multiple applications and databases.

When multiple project teams maintain duplicate or inconsistent data sources, organizations lack a single, integrated view of enterprise data that is fully accurate and accountable in real time.

JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform helps reduce the time and cost of software development and integration. It bridges the gap between the data you have and the data you need.