Juha Mykknen

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SerAPI project Service-oriented architecture
and Web Services in Healthcare Application
Production and Integration RD project in the
FinnWell programme of the National Technology
Agency TEKES, Finland

• Juha Mykkänen
• University of Kuopio, HIS RD Unit
• Health Kuopio seminar
• Brussels, 5 November 2004

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In this presentation

• Project overview
• Goals and activities
• Collaboration

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SerAPI ideas and goals

• Enabling technologies Web services and
  Service-oriented architecture (SOA)
• flexibility (healthcare processes, changing work,
  different healthcare settings, local
  requirements)
• web technologies, independent implementation
  solutions in applications, reuse
• integration, reduction of overlapping data and
  functionality, interactivity
• open technologies (applicable in heterogeneous
  environment), utilisation of existing
  infrastructure, increasing tool support
• Define information system and application
  integration needs in healthcare, which can be
  addressed using software services
• Define and offer service interfaces in
  applications and products
• Define architecture, development process and
  supporting infrastructure for application
  production in service architecture
• Study and select service-oriented software
  development methods and tools
• Validate in reference implementations,
  applications and products
• Define interfaces and mechanisms for healthcare
  process measurement and management
• Continue interface and integration work started
  in the PlugIT project
• especially linked to national and international
  Common Services standardization

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SerAPI viewpoints how to produce, provide,
consume and manage services to..

• Effectively support changing processes and
  workflows of healthcare organizations..

• with adaptive, reusable and efficiently developed
  application products and integration solutions

• based on open and coherent services, architecture
  and efficient infrastructure

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SerAPI viewpoints
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Project schedule
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Participants

• Research groups (3)
• HIS RD Unit, University of Kuopio (unit in
  charge)
• Shiftec, Dept. of Health Policy and Management,
  University of Kuopio
• Software engineering, Dept. of Computer Science,
  University of Kuopio
• Software vendors (application vendors
  infrastructure, 10-13)
• application of services to new generation
  software applications and products
• integration, adaptability, configuration in
  different settings
• adaptation of applications to service archite,
  siirtymä- ja kehityspolut
• architecture enables independence in applications
  for tools and implementation technologies
• tools, development productivity, reuse
• use of technology standards, development of
  healthcare standards
• Healthcare organizations (hospital districts,
  2-3)
• specifications initiate from the needs and the
  users and information management in healthcare
  organizations
• prioritisation of interfaces, conformance
  testing, architecture as a tool for information
  strategy
• responsiveness to changes in processes and to
  local requirements
• flexible and measurable support for healthcare
  processes
• open interfaces, adaptable solutions

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Some related projects and activities
Your project?
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Further steps / collaboration

• Applicability of solutions / technologies in
  various environments (different health care
  settings, countries)
• Organisational / regional / national /
  international initiatives
• Related projects?
• services, interfaces, integration,
  interoperability
• interface standardization
• processes ? applications / products ?
  infrastructure

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Thank you / Merci / Dank u / Danke schön /
Gracias / Tak / Efharisto / Grazie / Obrigado /
Tack / Dêkuji / Tänan / Paldies / Achiu /
Köszönöm / Grazzi / Dziekuje / Dakujem / Hvala /
Kiitos!

• juha.mykkanen_at_uku.fi