title: Designing web services in health information systems: from process to application level.
abstract: Service-oriented architectures (SOA) and web service technologies have been proposed to respond to some central interoperability challenges of heterogeneous health information systems (HIS). We propose a model, which we are using to define services and solutions for healthcare applications from the requirements in the healthcare processes. Focusing on the transition from the process level of the model to the application level, we also present some central design considerations, which can be used to guide the design of service-based interoperability and illustrate these aspects with examples from our current work in service-enabled HIS.
authors.affiliation: University of Kuopio, HIS R & D Unit, IT Service Centre, Kuopio, Finland.Juha.Mykkanen@uku.fi
authors.forename: Juha
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mykkänen
authors.forename: Annamari
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Riekkinen
authors.forename: Pertti
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Laitinen
authors.forename: Harri
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Karhunen
authors.forename: Marko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sormunen
mesh_terms: D003199:Computer Systems; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D063005:Health Information Systems; D006801:Humans