SOA SOLUTIONS FOR
HEALTHCARE FROM RED HAT
As a healthcare provider, you are faced with a combina-
tion of operational, regulatory, and informational chal-
lenges. Your organization must manage a complex set of
public/private information partner relationships, which are
further complicated by the growth of the data over time.
Integration of information is a key factor of the many deci-
sions that drive everything from research to management
of the clinical patient data.
“A service-oriented architecture
does not solve your data problem;
it merely exposes it”
A service-oriented architecture (SOA) for healthcare must
address issues of data and communications interoper-
ability. Traditional SOA technologies ignore the data, only
tackling the issue of protocols. Healthcare organizations
are turning to the Red Hat SOA technology to address both
data and communication issues.
A BETTER WAY TO WORK WITH DATA
ACROSS DIVERSE SYSTEMS
SOA solutions for healthcare from Red Hat begin with the
MetaMatrix Enterprise Data Services Platform. MetaMatrix
Enterprise Data Services Platform is a powerful manage-
ment system. It provides tools for creating data services,
a repository for storing data service denitions with rel-
evant metadata, and a robust execution environment that
provides enterprise-class performance, data integrity, and
security. MetaMatrix lets you transform the data you have
into the data you want. It allows multiple, distributed data
sources — relational databases, XML, at les, web services,
HL7—to be transformed into a single, read/writable data
source with a single common interface. With MetaMatrix,
your healthcare organization can create unied views of
your data.
Once data has been converted into a more useful form,
MetaMatrix connects to another data source— the JBoss
Enterprise SOA Platform. The SOA Platform is a high-per-
formance enterprise service business that supports
a federated architecture, providing process orchestration,
messaging routing, and registry capabilities in conjunction
with additional data connectors.
Web services built on the JBoss Enterprise Application
Platform can be connected to the SOA Platform to pro-
cess the data being routed by the SOA Platform and trans-
formed by MetaMatrix.
ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS
Sophisticated electronic medical records (EMRs) offer
web service interfaces for integration. Unfortunately, these
web service interfaces are often difcult-to-use and have
limited security and auditing capabilities.
MetaMatrix works smoothly with EMRs such as Epic or
McKesson to present a standardized web interface that also
integrates security and auditing capabilities. Applications
can then securely access this standardized interface via
web services to modify patient data.
SINGLE VIEW OF THE PATIENT
Patient data is frequently scattered across multiple data-
bases. MetaMatrix provides a single read/write view into
multiple databases — like InterSystems Caché. Physicians
can now have a single view of a patient instead of consult-
ing multiple applications and databases.
When multiple project teams maintain duplicate or incon-
sistent data sources, organizations lack a single, integrated
view of enterprise data that is fully accurate and account-
able in real time.
MetaMatrix Enterprise Data Services Platform helps reduce
the time and cost of software development and integration.
It bridges the gap between the data you have and the data
you need.
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