Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technology enables composition of large and complex computational units out of the available atomic services. Implementation of SOA brings about challenges which include service discovery, service interaction, service composition, robustness, quality of service, security, etc. These challenges are mainly due to the dynamic nature of SOA. SOAmay often need to ...

INTRODUCTION An integrated approach to the mental healthcare of older people is advocated across health, aged care and social care sectors. It is not clear, however, how the management of integrated servicing should occur, although interorganisational relations theory suggests a reflective network approach using evaluation feedback. This research will test a network management approach to help ...

This article explores the structure of connections between the hospitals that are members of a hospital management innovation and learning network. This study was based on the assumption that there are limitations to encourage the communication and diffusion of knowledge between health service organizations if they are not effectively connected through social networks. Social Network Analysis w...

With the broad adoption of service-orientation for the realization of business applications and their provisioning and usage over cloud infrastructures, the topology of the resulting service networks is becoming extremely complex. Due to the composition of services for value-added business capabilities and the reusability of a service in multiple compositions, the execution of one service often...

introduction: non-integrated health information has forced health sector to utilize information and communication technology (ict). national health information infrastructure (nhii) integrates clinical and health information, decreases medical errors as well as costs, and increases patient’s safety. thus, this article aimed to review the feasibility of nhii implementation in iran from perspecti...

national health information network (nhin) is a network in which all health care organizations, government agencies and other health-related organizations are connected to each other to exchange information about health. due to the necessity of a framework for nhin development, in this paper, according to the literature review, a definition for nhin framework was provided, and then the nhin rel...

Continued on page 2 The 1995 reorganization of the Veterans Health Administration into twenty-two Veterans Integrated Service Networks, or VISNs, created a significant opportunity to observe trends and innovations in healthcare delivery. One area where networks have substantially diverged has been in the development of service line structures. While some networks have moved forward rapidly in t...

This paper aims at investigating three different scenarios of user involvement in service networks. In particular, we chose a heterogeneous network of small and medium sized enterprises (SME), where firms form the network and users are the employees of those firms, a health care network, where hospitals and physicians are institutional members of the network and the role of the “user” is assume...

S everal rapid changes are taking place in U,S, health care, many of which were introduced by government and the private insurance industry, One change is the movement from fee-for-service to a managed care system of reimbursement. By managed care system I mean an insurance plan that incorporates the features of selective contracting with providers, financial incentives for subscribers to use t...