Deploying Healthcare Information Environments
A Healthcare Information Exchange is comprised of many healthcare stakeholders coming together to share patient healthcare information in a secure, yet highly leveraged fashion. Types of stakeholders include patients, doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, labs, payors (public/private mix of government, insurance, employers) and commercial healthcare service providers. Their reasons for coming together are varied. In national healthcare systems, the focus is on cost-reduction and information sharing across regional boundaries, whereas in payor-driven (private) healthcare systems, there is often a mix of government and corporate interests at stake.
Healthcare information environment deployment models are based on how centralized the healthcare data is configured. The Intel® SOA Expressway for Healthcare (Intel® SOAE-H) supports all three deployment models.
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National healthcare information networks
Government-backed healthcare initiatives provide a backbone infrastructure for patient data exchange. The core requirements include:
- A robust network informatics exchange model
- Standardizing data exchange of personal health records among healthcare entities such as hospitals, laboratories, pharmacies, insurance agencies, and security and auditing capabilities
- The ability to validate and normalize data on demand from any point in the network
Regional healthcare information networks
In regional healthcare information networks such as state or privatized networks, the core requirement is the ability to process higher volumes of varied formats of healthcare data. The system-to-system data exchange is driven by levels of data sharing agreements between many disparate legacy systems across multiple industry organizations. The Intel® SOA Expressway for Healthcare can be deployed either as a backbone or core component in a centralized health exchange network or at the edge of each participant organization facilitating the assembly, validation, and push or pull of clinical information from the core.
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This type of healthcare information network is seen within a hospital or physician's office where the majority of day-to-day healthcare transactions occur between the patient and the clinician. It is here where systemic services, syntactic and semantic services, business services, and clinical protocols would be best applied to improve access, quality, and the cost of delivering care.
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