An article by Jane Grimson, William Grimson and Wilhelm Hasselbring highlights the Systems Integration (SI) Challenges faced by the Healthcare industry.
These days, one of the major concerns of organizations in the Healthcare system is their inability to share information with other organizations. The need to be able to share data is required for the progress towards efficiency and cost effectiveness.
The authors of the article talk about ways in which SI can and is being used in the Healthcare industry today. The article talks about achieving Federated Healthcare in order to provide greater accessibility to patient information. A couple of examples of middleware components that provide interconnection of distributed systems are also discussed.
In order to have confidence in the use of IT in the Healthcare industry, Security and Confidentiality of sensitive patient data are required. The article lays emphasis on these characteristics and the challenges encountered by them.
The article can be found at:
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=999418
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