Healthcare environments are highly transactional and rife with specialized applications. Although Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) purports to deliver healthcare organizations from chaos, uptake is slow amongst these enterprises. Due its complexity and costs, approach SOA with eyes wide open.
Benefits of SOA
SOA holds the promise of business process-driven services for use across the enterprise. However, poorly-implemented SOA will lead to more components, created faster than ever before, resulting in service spaghetti that can never be untangled. Service spaghetti leaves the business with no ability to ensure that business rules are consistently applied and that regulatory requirements are met. That said, a well-executed SOA promises:
