title: Using ESB and BPEL for evolving healthcare systems towards SOA.
abstract: Healthcare organizations often face the challenge of integrating diverse and geographically disparate information technology systems to respond to changing requirements and to exploit the capabilities of modern technologies. Hence, systems evolution, through modification and extension of the existing information technology infrastructure, becomes a necessity. This paper takes a process perspective of healthcare delivery within and across organizational boundaries and the presents a disciplined approach for evolving healthcare systems towards a service-oriented architecture using the enterprise system bus middleware technology for resolving integration issues and the business process execution language for supporting collaboration requirements.
authors.affiliation: Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Piraeus 185 34, Greece.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Papakonstantinou
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Malamateniou
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Vassilacopoulos
mesh_terms: D003199:Computer Systems; D003628:Database Management Systems; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006115:Greece; D006801:Humans; D016490:Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems; D020407:Internet; D008331:Management Information Systems; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D008492:Medical Informatics Computing; D050316:Medical Order Entry Systems; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D011381:Programming Languages; D018511:Systems Integration