Title: A model of service-oriented architecture based on medical activities for the interoperability of health and hospital information systems

Authors: Abdelhak Kaddari; Malki Mohamed Ouçamah Cherkaoui; Abdelali Elloub; Said Benomar Elmdeghri

Addresses: FSDM, Math and Informatics Department, University of Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah, BP 1796, Fez, Morocco ' FSDM, Math and Informatics Department, University of Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah, BP 1796, Fez, Morocco ' FSDM, Math and Informatics Department, University of Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah, BP 1796, Fez, Morocco ' FSDM, Math and Informatics Department, University of Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah, BP 1796, Fez, Morocco

Abstract: In hospitals, the analysis of health organisations is weak and does not seem suited to collaborative work. And often the inter-services communication is difficult. As for the systems interoperability, even with the considerable efforts that have been made to overcome those problems, they have not been able to establish a convincing solution to all the institutions of the medical field. In this paper, we propose an approach based on a service-oriented architecture (SOA). We aim to reduce the impact of the factors of field complexities on the implementation of the interoperable health and hospital information systems (HHIS). We leverage standard technologies of web services and of business process to develop a new model of architecture. This will offer a pretty clear overall view of the communication's schema; allowing cooperation between the various entities of the health organisation, in order to achieve the objectives of the continuity and the quality of care.

Keywords: hospital information systems; HIS; basic medical activity; patient shared records; patient records; web services; systems interoperability; service-oriented architecture; SOA; health information systems; business processes; healthcare management; continuity of care; quality of care.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMEI.2015.066252

International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics, 2015 Vol.7 No.1, pp.80 - 100

Received: 22 Nov 2013
Accepted: 19 May 2014
Published online: 09 Dec 2014 *

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