title: Software architecture and engineering for patient records: current and future.
abstract: During the "The National Forum on the Future of the Defense Health Information System," a track focusing on "Systems Architecture and Software Engineering" included eight presenters. These presenters identified three key areas of interest in this field, which include the need for open enterprise architecture and a federated database design, net centrality based on service-oriented architecture, and the need for focus on software usability and reusability. The eight panelists provided recommendations related to the suitability of service-oriented architecture and the enabling technologies of grid computing and Web 2.0 for building health services research centers and federated data warehouses to facilitate large-scale collaborative health care and research. Finally, they discussed the need to leverage industry best practices for software engineering to facilitate rapid software development, testing, and deployment.
authors: Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 622 W 168 Street, VC-5, New York, NY 10032, USA.
authors: Chunhua
authors: C
authors: Weng
authors: Betty A
authors: BA
authors: Levine
authors: Seong K
authors: SK
authors: Mun
mesh_terms: D003199:Computer Systems; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008889:Military Personnel; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design; D014481:United States