Interoperability framework for integrated e-health services

Abstract

As one of the country with largest population in the world, Indonesia is facing major challenge to serve people in various sectors, one of them is health sector. Utilization of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has a strategic role in improving efficiency and expanding services access. The main challenge related to data interoperability is the ability to integrate and synchronize data sourced from health information (e-health) systems with different (heterogeneous) platforms. This research aims to build a framework to materialize data interoperability and information exchange among e-health systems. The interoperability is materialized by utilizing service oriented architecture (SOA) paradigm and is implemented using Web Service technology. Service oriented analysis and design (SOAD) is used as method in the system development at the analysis phase and designing phase to generate service portfolio which consisting of three levels: conceptual view, logical view, and physical view. This research intruduces Interoperability Matrix (IM) to describe the modules and entities that involved in the framework design. The framework resulted from this research can be used as reference in e-health systems development in variety of health care applications.

Single Page Application for Business Intelligence Dashboard

“…RESTful web service is a client/server communication protocol using resources in the form of URIs. RESTful web services use HTTP methods such as GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE for data operations [5]. There are 2 protocols used in web service development, namely SOAP and REST protocols.…”

Evaluating Service-Oriented and Microservice Architecture Patterns to Deploy eHealth Applications in Cloud Computing Environment

“…For example, Gavrilov et al [38] propose a novel conceptual model of EHR focused on the aspect of cross-border interoperability [39], whose objective is to meet the needs of interconnectivity between the different eHealth systems of Macedonia, under the specifications of the European Patients Smart Open Services project [40,41]. Thus, the authors chose to combine the SOA architectural pattern with the use of the data warehouse (DW) and the following three technologies oriented to an extract, transform and load (ETL) process: the interface description (using Web services description language (WSDL) documents), the communication protocol simple object access protocol (SOAP) (using extensible markup language (XML)) and universal description, discovery and integration (UDDI) repositories (allowing users to find services) [38].…”

“…Likewise, Amin et al [39] propose building a framework for the exchange of information among the eHealth systems of Indonesia, whose purpose is to integrate and synchronize data from different (heterogeneous) platforms through web interoperability. This framework was designed under the concept of service-oriented analysis and design (SOAD) [42,43], which is composed of the three main phases of the conceptual view (CV), which illustrates to those involved all the activities that encompass the workflow of the organization; the logical view (LV), which encapsulates all the logic identified by the CV in various software services; and the physical view (PV), which implements the different web layers, including the presentation, application service, domain model and data access layers.…”

“…MSA is considered a more refined and simplified version of SOA [33,52], since this architecture responds to the needs of scalability of applications by segmenting the logic of an organization into a series of separate services that are executed as independent processes; that is, it is not necessary to use the same languages, databases or development platforms [21,53,54]. In addition, MSA inherits from SOA the concept of interoperability through the implementation of lightweight mechanisms such as HTTPbased API and others [39,50,55].…”

PIXEL, Plataforma para Integração de Experimentos de Interoperabilidade em Sistemas Legados de Saúde Pública

“…A ferramenta proposta é baseada em três camadas: suporte aos dados de aquisição, processo de publicação de dados vinculados e construção de serviços de valor agregado para as bibliotecas digitais comerciais. No trabalho realizado por [Amin et al 2020], tem-se uma pesquisa que objetiva construir uma ferramenta para viabilizar a interoperabilidade entre sistemas de e-saúde. A interoperabilidade é alcançada por meio do paradigma de arquitetura orientada a serviços.…”