Oracle SOA Suite for Healthcare Integration

Disclaimer The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle's products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle. Executive Summary One of the biggest IT challenges facing today's health care industry is the difficulty finding reliable, secure, and cost-effective ways to exchange information. Payers and providers need versatile platforms for enterprise-wide information sharing. Clinicians require accurate information to provide quality care to patients while administrators need integrated information for all facets of the business operation. Both sides of the organization must be able to access information from research and development systems, practice management systems, claims systems, financial systems, and many others. Externally, these organizations must share claims data, patient records, pharmaceutical data, lab reports, and diagnostic information among third party entities—all while complying with emerging standards for formatting, processing, and storing electronic health records (EHR). Service-oriented architecture (SOA) enables developers to integrate many types of software applications, databases and computing platforms within a particular health network as well as with community, state, and national health information exchanges. The Oracle SOA Suite for healthcare integration is designed to provide healthcare organizations with comprehensive integration capabilities within a unified middleware platform, as well as with healthcare libraries and templates for streamlining healthcare IT projects. Through the use of Oracle SOA Suite and the Oracle Healthcare Adapter, Oracle helps these organizations to reliably exchange information while adhering to important industry standards and initiatives. As part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family, these technologies enable healthcare organizations to lower operating costs and accelerate time-to-market by delivering a consistent user interface, security architecture, management console, and monitoring environment. Oracle helps health care organizations to improve information sharing processes—both internally and with business partners—by enabling simple, secure and scalable methods for sending authenticated and encrypted information directly to trusted recipients. Oracle's proven SOA tools reduce costs and minimize complexity by utilizing a secure, flexible, and standards-based middleware platform. Based on popular industry standards, Oracle SOA 2 Oracle SOA Suite for Healthcare Integration Suite for healthcare integration reduces the need for specialized skills and enforces an enterprise-wide view of critical healthcare data. Health plans, health care …