VALCO: Solutions for Health Information Delivery

ENTERPRISE SOA ENABLEMENT

What is SOA?

Why SOA?

For a variety of compelling reasons, many in the IT industry believe that the future of healthcare information systems lies with Service Oriented Architecture or SOA.

• Continuing consolidation in the healthcare industry means that the information that needs to be managed increasingly comes from a growing number of single-silo applications.  Managing and integrating this growing body of information presents healthcare providers with new sets of challenges.
  
  SOA lets organizations keep their existing software systems and overlay them with a service based technology that provides web enablement.
  
   
• Healthcare organizations, whether a single hospital, a doctor's office, an Integrated Delivery Network (IDN) or a Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO), need to provide interconnectivity to systems, people, departments and enterprises.
  
  SOA provides high levels of integration and the ability to add new functionality to meet your evolving business needs.
  
   
• Historically, enterprise integration and interoperability has been a slow, complex and expensive process that has relied heavily on hard-coding solutions and point-to-point integration.
  
  SOA significantly reduces these limitations by allowing organizations to define information assets as services and link them into composite applications.

How does SOA work?

An SOA-based “Services Layer” enables the delivery of information and applications to users as multiple independent components. These components can be re-assembled in a portal-based composite application that can contain any required combination of information and applications.

This SOA layer serves as middleware, which includes metadata, process rules, security, context management, etc., and a core processing engine that runs the services and ensures controlled execution. This lets existing IT systems and applications remain in place – so prior investments continue to deliver value.

Why Valco?

Beyond our healthcare domain expertise, one of Valco/DataGlider's key differentiators is our technology.  Our solution framework includes the Valco/DataGlider SOAspin™ Information Server, which contains all the tools, components, and subsystems required for building, managing and running healthcare information delivery, integration and interoperability solutions.

Valco/DataGlider's Framework and SOAspin™ Information Server incorporate the following critical success factors.

•  Highly customizable key systems features, such as service definitions, connections, metadata, user interfaces, data validations, processing rules and security, are easily and quickly tailored to meet your needs and priorities.

 
• Our component-based and distributed architecture allows our applications to link with all healthcare systems such as HCIS, PACS, LAB, Pharmacy, Payers, etc., to provide you with true software integration.

 
• Loosely coupled components, which make up our system, can operate independently, allowing us unprecented flexibility to leverage existing systems within your organization.

 
• SOA-based metadata-driven systems and components, which we have been building specifically for healthcare clients, let us incorporate a variety of best practices that simplify the maintenance and extension of your system.

 
• Our context management server aggregates multiple small windows of contextually related clinical data (Datalets™) on a single screen.  This approach significantly enriches the user experience and provides the user with the information he/she needs in one place.

 
• Browser-based portal application solutions ease the problems associated with supporting information access from multiple locations and device-types on the client side and application deployment and maintenance on the server side.

 
• AJAX-based client technology lets user interact with data and information in a more intelligent, intuitive and productive manner than is normally available in web-based applications.

 
• The Valco/DataGlider Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), delivers a communication model capable of a better response to real-time changes - such as critical new lab results - than is possible with conventional request/reply mechanisms.

Talk to Valco about its' successful implementations to data and how this technology may benefit your organization.