title: The Andover Working Group--accelerating the implementation of standards.
abstract: The Andover Working Group was formed with the objective to accelerate and broadly deliver standards-based solutions for healthcare which feature plug and play interoperability across the continuum of care. In this paper, organization and processes used by the Andover Working Group are discussed. A description of how multilateral message profiles, combined with object-oriented component middleware supporting application developments, systems integration and systems operation remove many of the barriers to deployment of systems of standards based applications is also given.
authors.affiliation: Hewlett Packard, Medical Products Group, Andover, MA 01810, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Harrington
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Melo
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pascoe
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Trainor
mesh_terms: D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D016490:Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems / Q000592:standards*; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration; D014481:United States