Accelerate Healthcare Information Environments
Intel has worked with hundreds of healthcare leaders around the world to understand the ways to significantly improve the healthcare information environment, streamline information flow, and enhance the quality, cost, and efficiency of patient care.
The Intel® SOA Expressway for Healthcare (Intel® SOAE-H) is a result of this research. It provides a highly efficient way to get computable healthcare information from one place to another—across departmental systems, among providers, and to a regional or national group supporting a healthcare community. Moreover, its vendor-neutral platform makes it suitable for inclusion in healthcare vendors' product offerings, allowing vendors of all types to modernize and expand their markets within or across the healthcare environment. This enables healthcare providers to develop integrated digital hospitals that improve quality of care, workflow, costs, and accessibility.
The Intel® SOA Expressway in action
Product overview
A key reason for the slow adoption of sharing patient information in healthcare environments is the high and variable cost of proprietary data and integration services. The Intel SOAE-H uniquely offers cost-containment and operational simplicity by providing a high-performance platform-based solution for translating, processing, and connecting multiple data formats across a healthcare environment.
The Intel SOAE-H combines robust HL7, EDI, and HIPAA support and a unique healthcare environment developer kit (HDK) with a high-performance, codeless workflow engine, native XML acceleration, and appliance manageability in a simple software form factor.
It can be used in a stand-alone manner to construct large multi-site health networks using the HDK, or it can be used as a base platform to augment healthcare vendor product offerings with a modern, high-performance SOA-based architecture. In either case, the goal is the same—to accelerate computable healthcare information across disparate health environments such as hospitals, integrated delivery networks, clinics, payor networks, labs, and pharmaceutical networks.
- Broad support for SOA, OMG, HL7 and EDI, and IHE standards. Click hereFiletype/Size: PDF 155KB to view full IHE & HITSP support.
- Plug & Play or OEM architecture
- High-velocity processing
- Secure, lights-out operations
- Comprehensive communications support
- Robust, certified ISV Partner Ecosystem
Product features
High-performance XML processing
High (wire) speed XML acceleration technology with optimized XML processing engine for XML parsing, XPath routing, XSLT, schema validation, Web services, SOAP, XML security, Web services security.
Unmatched time-to-value realization
By using the Intel SOAE-H, many common integration problems can be addressed entirely within a visual environment. Extensibility features ensure that complex integration is easily addressed. Further compression of time-to-value comes from familiar BPEL design-time environment and SOA manageability tooling.
Rapid implementation
The Intel SOAE-H can be up and running in as little as 60 days or less—even in complex network and data center environments. Its "codeless" design means that organizations can leverage built-in services, and design tools to map and manage outgoing and inbound content without the assistance of expensive and scarce software development resources, and can connect to networks through multiple, open standards-based communications protocols. The WS-BPEL-based workflow design makes development as simple as "configure-deploy-run," and reduces coding of standard data flows.
Lights-out manageability
Turn it on, map your data, set up your workflows, configure how you want to communicate, and then go live. Intel SOAE-H is built to be fast, reliable, and administration-free in daily use—just like the best appliance solutions but on industry-standard hardware and OS platforms. Soft appliance form factor offers appliance-like manageability and monitoring with extensibility of software.
Partner compatible and extensible
In support of SOA principals, Intel SOAE-H is stack independent. This means that it does not require any other products to operate effectively, yet is delivered with the HDK and hooks to create easy integration with important vertical and horizontal applications in healthcare.
Built on SOA principles
The Intel SOAE-H can integrate into, and operate successfully in legacy, J2EE, or .Net environments. The Intel SOAE-H's extensible protocol-brokering framework also allows mediation between HTTP, FTP, JMS, MLLP, and even custom-built socket-based protocols.
If you'd like to learn more about the Intel SOA Expressway for Healthcare, please send an e-mail to intelsoainfo@intel.com.
back to topHealthcare Developer Kit—Network model
The Intel SOA Expressway for Healthcare Developer Kit uses a simple information sharing model to give healthcare environment participants immediate access to patient and associated relevant clinical data. Using the developer kit and supplied architectural model, large multi-site networks can be built in a fraction of the time of adaptor-based integration by relying on consistent SOA interfaces and principles.
The developer kit provides the following features and capabilities:
- Standardized HL7 v3 CDA R2 common information model for a ubiquitous healthcare dial tone
- One-time mapping for existing hospital systems to join the Healthcare Network—the Healthcare Developer Kit provides 70% of the necessary communication infrastructure
- Visual data mapping and conversion engine to translate and validate HL7, X12, and HIPAA messages
- No adaptor maintenance on existing hospital information systems as new systems join the healthcare environment
- Virtualization of end points and services in the healthcare environment enables flexible and cost-effective scaling and reconfiguration of the healthcare environment as it evolves over time
- Built from the ground up on modern SOA principles and architecture
Healthcare Developer Kit—Information model
Intel SOAE-H provides visual, reconfigurable information building blocks that enable development of healthcare data flow to support virtual patient-centered information needs. This visual capability greatly reduces integration costs by automating and standardizing data sharing between applications and organizations. Users can further extend and enhance their healthcare data services by adding services provided by Intel's robust Certified ISV Partner Ecosystem.
- Standardized information and service model for the healthcare domain
- Leverages the CDA R2 XML implementation of HL7 v3 RIM
- Healthcare data is normalized on the network
- Enables specific interoperability use cases and secondary usages of shared clinical data
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On-Ramp to joining the network
- One-time cost to join the network
- Visual mapper and conversion engine to deal with legacy HL7, X12, and HIPAA messages
- The Intel SOAE-H converts data to and from the HL7 v3 CDA R2 common information model