OASIS, the international open standards consortium, today announced that its members have approved the Emergency Data Exchange Language Resource Messaging (EDXL-RM) 1.0 and the EDXL Hospital AVailability Exchange (HAVE) 1.0 specifications as OASIS Standards, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. EDXL-RM describes a suite of standard messages for sharing data among information systems that coordinate requests for emergency equipment, supplies, and people. - SOA Healthcare - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Hypatia Research, LLC today released a report entitled “Business Intelligence in the Healthcare Industry” outlining strategies, vendor solutions and services utilized by leading companies. - SOA Healthcare Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

HIPAAT Inc. (HIPAAT), the leading provider of consent management solutions to the healthcare industry, partnered with IBM in this week’s successful North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance, Inc. (NCHICA) and MedVirginia demonstrations of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) Trial Implementations. The Washington, DC presentations highlighted the importance of consumer empowerment and patient privacy. - SOA Healthcare Network - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Making medical insurance claims is now far simpler thanks to the launch of the first phase of a "Claims in a Cloud" software as a service (SaaS) solution from Corporate Modelling partners Xena Health and Solutions Medical Billing. " Claims in a Cloud" provides everything that individuals, medical billing companies or smaller medical and non-medical practitioners need to increase cash flow, decrease costs, and streamline office operations. - SOA Healthcare Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Under an agreement that could represent an early step towards more portable, carrier-agnostic PHRs (personal health records) for consumers, Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna announced in late October that it will provide members with the capability to transfer data contained with their carrier-provided PHRs to Microsoft's Web-based consumer health platform, HealthVault. - SOA Healthcare Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Cleveland Clinic, a world-class academic medical institution and leader in health information technology, today announced collaboration with Microsoft Corp., a worldwide leader in software, to pilot the patient-controlled data exchange between Microsoft(R) HealthVault(TM), a Web-based personal health platform; a suite of widely-used digital medical devices; and eCleveland Clinic MyChart(R), Cleveland Clinic's electronic personal health record (PHR) system. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

InterSystems Corporation today announced that Spectrum Health has selected InterSystems Ensemble(R) software for integration initiatives across the entire enterprise. Recognized as one of the nation's top integrated health care systems, Spectrum Health is dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Cisco® Application-Oriented Networking (AON) Healthcare Services Extension for HIPAA and ePrescription is an innovative approach to healthcare information exchange. This solution greatly simplifies the secure transport, transformation, and reliable delivery of HIPAA-compliant messages directly between healthcare providers, payers, benefits managers, and governmental agencies over the Internet. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

The Cleveland Clinic is testing an electronic health technology that could help transform the way its doctors and other caregivers practice medicine. The Clinic is partnering with Microsoft HealthVault to enable certain patients to monitor chronic conditions -- high blood pressure, diabetes and heart failure -- at home. These patients will use high-tech devices, home computers and the Internet to keep Clinic doctors posted on their conditions. SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Resilient Trust Networks announced today it is launching a trust network in the state of Utah, with the Fourth Street Clinic in downtown Salt Lake City. This network will serve as a model for the rest of the nation enabling continuity and coordination of care, secure messaging for scheduling and referrals, collaborative case management, disease management, medication adherence, patient access, patient safety and surveillance, medical research, and protection from medical identity theft and claims fraud. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) received top recognition in the health care category of the 2008 Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Case Study Competition, sponsored by the SOA Consortium and CIO Magazine. Infoway's interoperable electronic health record (EHR) architecture, the EHR Blueprint - a framework for a Canadian EHR, was awarded for demonstrating business success and lessons learned in SOA adoption. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

JWT INSIDE, one of the world’s leading recruitment marketing and internal communications companies, is bringing Web 2.0 solutions to hospitals and health care systems. In order to engage the employees of a large health care system that is geographically spread out, JWT INSIDE incorporated PURL technology in their recent internal communications campaign. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Some blood pressure monitors can now connect and transmit the information for you as well! Based on the information entered, the software will also alert you when it may be time to see your doctor. If I were entering blood pressure, I would check around to find a device that will do the work for you by connecting to your PC. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Health insurer Aetna Inc. is becoming the first health insurer to team with Microsoft Corp. to give its customers an Internet-based vault for storing medical records they can access even if they change jobs or leave their health plan. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALHCARE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Cardiac Science launched Quinton® Q-Tel® RMS 3.1, a new and simpler electronic reporting system which allows caregivers to focus more time on patients. The primary benefit is a marked reduction in paperwork common to cardiac rehabilitation programs. Q-Tel also makes data transfer to hospital information systems (HIS) and electronic medical record (EMR) systems easy. Cardiac Science Corporation (NASDAQ:CSCX) is a global leader in advanced cardiac diagnosis, resuscitation, rehabilitation, and informatics products. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Medmatics, LLC, a leading vendor of on-demand, anticoagulation software for private practices and hospital settings, today announced its support for the Google Chrome Browser, a new open source browser intended to make the Web faster, safer, and easier. As the first anticoagulation management software application with native support for Firefox 3.0 (announced August), CoaguTrak continues to focus on innovation around the latest browser technology and is also the first anticoagulation software to support Google Chrome. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

CollaborateMD, a leading provider of Internet practice management and medical billing software for the healthcare industry, attributes 3rd quarter growth to their cost-effective hybrid Software as a Service (SaaS) model, which combines the convenience and flexibility characteristic of most browser-based applications with the speed and power found in many locally run Windows-based programs. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

JanRain, Inc. (www.janrain.com), the leading provider of OpenID technology and services for consumers and businesses, today announced that its popular myOpenID solution has been selected by Microsoft as an OpenID provider for the Microsoft HealthVault(TM) online consumer health platform. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

A New York-based startup called ZocDoc that provides people with a way to schedule health-care appointments online got some backing from two industry heavy-hitters Wednesday -- Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos and Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Quantum Intech, Inc., and its subsidiary HeartMath LLC, the leader in scientifically based stress reduction and performance boosting technologies, today announced the release of HeartMath's emWave(R) PC Stress Relief System connected to HealthVault, Microsoft's consumer health platform. The connected system provides consumers and corporations with online data for overall fitness assessments, the ability to integrate physician's office sessions with patient's home sessions, integrated progress review of stored sessions, and backup storage and synchronization of session information from multiple computers for employers and employees. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

With comparisons to both its Xbox platform and the PayPal online payment platform, Microsoft aims to correct common misperceptions about its HealthVault platform. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Technology that claims to put consumers instead of institutions in control of their own healthcare information is coming. But with it comes new privacy and security worries. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Today, PureWellness announced its collaboration with Microsoft to create "My Wellness Center" on the MSN Health and Fitness Channel. "My Wellness Center" leverages several important tools from the PureWellness platform to deliver important, personalized, health and wellness solutions for every consumer. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

CitiusTech, a leading provider of healthcare technology solutions and services, today announced it has attained Gold Certified Partner status in the Microsoft Partner Program. As a Gold Certified Partner, CitiusTech has demonstrated its expertise in leveraging Microsoft technologies to meet the growing needs of its healthcare customers. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Shared Health, Inc., one of the nation's largest public/private health information exchanges (HIE), has built its new clinical data-sharing platform, the Shared Health Clinical Xchange, on Oracle healthcare solutions and infrastructure software. SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Starting in early 2009, more than 18,000 Washingtonians in three different communities will have the opportunity to organize and manage access to their own health information under separate health record bank pilot project grants from the Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA). The three community grant recipients announced by the HCA include: Spokane-based Inland Northwest Health Services, Cashmere-based Community Choice Healthcare Network, and Bellingham-based St. Joseph Hospital Foundation and The Critical Junctures Institute. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCAR NETWORK - SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Learn more about how healthcare organizations are using Red Hat’s SOA for healthcare by downloading SOA in Healthcare overview and registering for our SOA for Healthcare webinar. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, one of the leading cancer research and care centers in the United States, is using Oracle(R) Healthcare Transaction Base (HTB) and Oracle Fusion Middleware components as the foundation for its new translational research infrastructure. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Pegasystems (NASDAQ: PEGA), today introduced its Care Management Workflow Framework (CMF), a patient-centric business process management solution that automates the creation and on-going improvement of personalized care management programs. By unifying disease management, case management, and utilization management across the healthcare enterprise, CMF gives care professionals the ability to collaborate in real-time and in turn provides patients with an equally cohesive view of their personal care plans. CMF reduces overall complexity, cuts utilization costs, and reduces cost of care management program development by 40-60 percent. These efficiencies are especially needed now as the healthcare system faces a tidal wave of aging baby boomers, more likely to demand and respond well to proactive care programs. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Microsoft Corp. today announced a strategic collaboration with RelayHealth, McKesson Corp.’s connectivity business, to accelerate and improve the relationship between doctors and patients. Together, Microsoft HealthVault and RelayHealth will enable affordable patient connectivity with doctors’ offices and hospitals so patients can have security-enhanced, easy online access to medical care, information and records. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

MEDSEEK, the leading provider of enterprise portal connectivity solutions, announced today that Cindy Tanenbaum, Information Services AVP of Diversified Business at MedStar Health, will present a Webinar in the monthly educational series reThinking eHealth. The session, titled "Creating the Connected Patient: How HealthVault and a patient portal is improving the patient experience," will take place on Wednesday August 6th at 2pm EDT, 11am PDT. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Opus Healthcare Solutions, Inc. ( http://www.opushealthcare.com/), a leading national provider of clinical information systems, has introduced the latest version of its OpusLaboratorySuite(R) which includes remote reporting, allowing clinicians to view results on a smart phone or PDA via a cell phone network or hospital Wi-Fi connection. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Medsphere® Systems Corporation, the leading provider of Open Source healthcare IT solutions, today announced a partnership with WebReach, Inc., a premier healthcare IT consultancy and creator of Open Source health IT solutions, for comprehensive support of Medsphere's OpenVista® electronic health record (EHR). - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Longs Drug Stores Corporation announced today that it has entered into an agreement to connect with Microsoft HealthVault, a consumer health platform for sharing information with patients and providers. Working with Microsoft towards a planned launch this fall, Longs will be one of the first pharmacies to offer consumers this feature which allows them to access their medication information and, if they choose, share it with others in a security-enhanced environment. HealthVault is an innovative platform that creates connectivity between patients and physicians, to promote better health, wellness and fitness while allowing the consumer to better manage their health information. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

The HealthVault Logo Program for Devices enhances customer confidence in the HealthVault experience through active health and fitness device manufacturer engagement in the logo strategy, process, and certification. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

This is the era of super computing and its usage is wide spread from universities and healthcare organizations to life sciences companies and governments worldwide. There has been constant pursuance across the globe to use computing powers to the fullest. The concept of cloud computing is a product of those efforts. The power of computing measured in terms of tens of trillions of computations per second is now applied to delivering personalized medical information, computational chemistry and biology over the web. - SOA Healthcare Network - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, today announced that it has been selected by Microsoft® as an OpenID provider for users of HealthVault(TM), a free service that enables consumers to store and manage their health information online. HealthVault's acceptance of VeriSign OpenIDs will begin later this week. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T), Covisint, which is a subsidiary of Compuware Corp. (Nasdaq: CPWR), and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced a major eHealth initiative -- a nationwide information exchange -- to enhance the health care experience for patients and practitioners alike. The new eHealth information exchange is a revolutionary approach designed to reduce costs and improve the quality of care while putting patients in control of their medical records. It allows consumers using Microsoft(R) HealthVault(TM), a software- and service-based platform for storing and accessing personal health information, to share information with authorized physicians and health care providers connected to AT&T Healthcare Community Online. - SOA Healthcare Network - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

NeoTool announces CareGateway, a new web services-based application that provides an innovative, forward-thinking solution for exchanging patient data with remote point of care locations. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

Today at the Government Health IT Conference & Exhibition an alliance of partners unveiled its work on a comprehensive, multivendor connected health and human services (HHS) technology architecture that is connecting disparate state and jurisdictional human services systems to give providers one comprehensive view into citizen/customer needs. The group supports today’s release of version 2.0 of the Microsoft Connected Health and Human Services Framework, which presents a flexible, individual and family-centered approach for addressing the challenges that face HHS agencies, departments and programs as they respond to complex social needs and problems and deliver services to individuals and families in need. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

At the second Microsoft HealthVault Solutions Conference today, a wide range of health technology companies introduced more than 40 new online health applications and devices designed to improve information sharing between patients and physicians; promote fitness, wellness and workplace productivity; and give people innovative online tools to manage their health and the health of their families more effectively than what is available today. These applications and devices take advantage of new features in HealthVault, Microsoft’s consumer health platform. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

Microsoft Corp. has increased award funding from $3 million to $4.5 million after receiving nearly 200 proposals from leading academic and research health organizations across the United States. Proposals represent a wide range of innovative online solutions designed to address significant health issues including childhood obesity, medication reconciliation, mobile health information gathering and dissemination, and diabetes management, as well as to help people manage their health more effectively. Strong interest and participation in the request for proposals (RFP) has made it one of the most successful Microsoft Research RFPs in the company's history. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM today announced that businesses are taking advantage of WebSphere Virtual Enterprise to manage software applications and service oriented architecture (SOA) environments with minimal human interaction. The software increases application performance and lowers operational and energy costs required to create, run, and manage applications across an enterprise - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM announced it has created a Centre of Excellence in Quebec City to deliver a solution to facilitate the sharing of critical medical documents between physicians, clinics and hospitals around the world. Artefact Informatique, a division of LGS Group Inc., an IBM company, will be the exclusive global provider of the solution. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA in the Healthcare Industry - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

Google on Monday launched Google Health, a long-anticipated medical records service letting US users store and manage their health care information online. - SOA Healthcare - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and HIPAAT Inc. (HIPAAT), the leading provider of consent management solutions to the healthcare industry, are joining forces to bring innovative health-information privacy controls to patients and care providers everywhere. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

Plexis Healthcare Systems, a leading innovator in benefits administration solutions since 1996, today announced a major advance in its government healthcare strategy. The Quantum Choice Product Suite, a highly configurable, scalable and cost effective alternative for comprehensive benefit administration, is ready for immediate deployment to federal, state and local government healthcare programs. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

Axway today announced Genzyme Corp. has selected its Synchrony™ Supply Chain Integrity Suite as part of its Serial Number Management System (SNMS) initiative. The initiative is part of Genzyme’s ongoing efforts to safeguard patients from counterfeits and help prevent diversion and increase supply chain visibility. The initiative is also geared toward making Genzyme compliant with EPCglobal’s EPC Information Services (EPCIS) standard. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA in the Healthcare Industry - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ) today announced a partnership with the Microsoft Corp. Health Solutions Group to research the integration of data from implantable devices with patient-controlled, personal health records. St. Jude Medical and Microsoft will work with physicians to determine the optimal level of integration (between the Merlin.net™ Patient Care Network and Microsoft® HealthVault) that will allow physicians to efficiently and confidentially share device information with their patients. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA in the Healthcare Industry - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

The SOA Forum, the world's largest SOA organization for IT executives, announced today that Dave Lindley, Senior Architect of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, will present at the organization's next webinar, on April 24, 2008 at 2pm Eastern. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA in Healthcare - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

Intel Corporation today announced Intel® SOA Expressway for Healthcare, software that provides an efficient way to exchange healthcare information inside hospitals and with health information networks. The product will allow healthcare providers to more easily connect with one another so that each can provide better care while benefiting from reduced integration costs. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA in Healthcare - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

This two part article based on excerpts from the book "SOA Demystified" explores how healthcare organizations can leverage shared services to automate multiple business processes and strengthen overall interoperability while reducing the need to synchronize data between isolated systems. Services may be made available, no matter their location, to create solutions that reach beyond the desktop, the department, and the healthcare organization as a whole. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA in Healthcare - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Based on its recent analysis of the Health Information Systems (HIS) market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Microsoft Corporation with the 2008 Global Healthcare Information Product of the Year Award for Microsoft® HealthVault™, the company’s breakthrough consumer health application platform. - SOA Healtcare Architect - SOA in Healthcare - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

Prolifics, an end-to-end systems integrator and currently celebrating its 30th Anniversary as an IT services company, has been named winner of the awards for "Outstanding WebSphere Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) Solution" and "Overall Technical Excellence - Americas" in the annual IBM Beacon Awards competition, honoring IBM Business Partners for their ingenuity, innovation, customer satisfaction and outstanding achievements in providing business solutions. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA in Healthcare - SOA Healthcare Network << MORE >>

Red Hat is pleased to announce that we’re joining the Open Health Tools (OHT) open source community. OHT is working closely with a broad spectrum of healthcare groups, including: major national healthcare providers in areas such as Canada, Australia and the UK; healthcare standards groups like IHTSDO and HL7; healthcare policy groups such as HSSP; and software providers such as Red Hat. OHT’s ultimate goal is to collaboratively build software tooling that will enable the seamless electronic exchange of healthcare data. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA in Healthcare - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

The SOA Consortium™, Object Management Group™ (OMG™), and Health Level Seven (HL7), today announced that Dr. Peter L. Elkin, Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, will be presenting the case study “eQuality Solutions: Enabling Safe and Effective Medical Practice while Decreasing Costs,” at the SOA in Healthcare Workshop. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA in Healthcare - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

Microsoft recently launched a new health application platform that allows consumers to better manage and control their health information. The platform known as Microsoft Health Vault, is designed to help patients collect, store, and share health information that would otherwise reside in disparate systems, and transfer the information between a variety of providers' health services and systems. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA in the Healthcare Industry - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

Opus Healthcare Solutions will install its OpusClinicalSuite(R) information system into the Lynn County Hospital District on an ASP (Application Service Provider) basis. This will enable the rural hospital district to obtain the latest clinical information system without a major upfront cost in new hardware and support staff. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA in the Healthcare Industry - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS), an international communications and information technology company, has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to develop and integrate an open-source, National Health Information Exchange Gateway solution. The Gateway, part of the larger National Health Information Network initiative, will enable federal healthcare agencies and healthcare providers to more quickly and easily share patient information -- improving the quality of care and reducing costs. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA in the Healthcare Industry - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

The Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) hosts its third Virtual Conference & Expo on April 23-24 with the recently added benefit of free access to the exhibit hall, educational sessions and networking lounge. The upcoming HIMSS Virtual Conference & Expo, created in partnership with Healthcare IT News, gives healthcare professionals the opportunity to gain product knowledge, grow professionally and network with their colleagues in an enhanced online, 3-D environment, all for free. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA in the Healthcare Industry - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

Perimeter eSecurity, the only provider of Complete Security On Demand, today launched their electronic Protected Health Information offering, ePHISecurity. ePHISecurity is the first and only on demand layered IT security solution for healthcare organizations. Entities covered under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 now have access to a complete, end-to-end security infrastructure, with over 50 pre-integrated security services, that traditionally only large healthcare organizations could implement and afford. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA in a Healthcare Industry - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

LogLogic®, the log management leader, today announced new straightforward appliances architected and priced specifically for the enterprise mid-market (annual revenues between $400 million and $1 billion). Without compromising the features and functionality that have made LogLogic the log management leader among the Fortune 500, these new log management appliances provide comprehensive log data compliance mandate assurance while making it easy for mid-market systems administrators to install, configure, operate and maintain them. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA in the Healthcare Industry - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

An interesting article detailing the opportunities for hospitals to participate in Web 2.0 information services for the benefit of themselves and their patients. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA in the Healthcare Industry - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

The rapid rise of technology and its adoption into the healthcare field has caused healthcare organizations to collect an accumulation of non-interoperable systems that not only need to work together within the organization, but are also accessed from outside. The burden of integration usually falls on the users of the system, who are forced often to access many different systems to complete one task. The use of a service oriented architecture (SOA), however, can improve the delivery of important information and make the sharing of data across a community of care practical in cost, security, and risk of deployment. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA in the Healthcare Industry - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

The status quo in health care systems is a little more complex than just another legacy data integration spaghetti. First obvious difference from the common customer-order-billing story: in healthcare it is a common situation that not the “customer” pays for the treatment but a third party (insurance). So is it something like a car dealer’s garage business? In some part yes. However, unlike most businesses healthcare is exceptionally regulated and cross-organizational: “A healthcare information network (HIN) is a collaboration among the government, hospitals, specialty labs and pharmacies, as well as insurance agencies (payers)”. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA in the Healthcare Industry - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

Bottom line, unstructured documents needlessly increase expenses and prolong time to market. Bad data may be introduced — or good data may be overlooked — at any stage of the product lifecycle, requiring companies to repeat one or more stages. Or progress may simply slow to a crawl at stages involving manual re-entry. Regardless, pharmaceutical companies stand to lose over $2 million for each day of missed opportunity in the market. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA in the Pharmaceutical and Healtcare Industry - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

NeoTool has added high availability functionality to its healthcare interface engine -- NeoIntegrate™. With this release, NeoTool has delivered affordable, simple-to-manage high availability for the clinical data exchange environment. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA in the Healthcare Industry - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM today announced at HIMSS®08 a ground-breaking, comprehensive portfolio of health analytics solutions for health systems. IBM's proven Enterprise Health Analytics harness the power of massive information generated by today's healthcare industry by converting it into new, data-driven intelligence. This rich source of clinical and business insight can bring strategic differentiation to health systems by giving them unprecedented knowledge about their operations, patients, and effectively all aspects of their businesses. SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA in a Healthcare World - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM today announced that it is collaborating with nine business partners to help healthcare providers, clinics and hospitals improve productivity, increase quality and reduce costs through the use of service oriented architecture (SOA). These partners are all working to develop their latest healthcare applications using the IBM SOA Foundation and supporting a set of open technology and industry standards. - SOA Healtcare Architect - SOA in the Healthcare Industry - SOA Healthcare Network << MORE >>

Meddius, an emerging provider of next-generation integration appliances for the healthcare industry, unveiled that its Integration Router(TM) can process over 5.5 million HL7 messages per hour. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA Heathcare Network << MORE >>

CareEvolution, Inc. and the South Carolina Office of Research & Statistics are pleased to announce that the South Carolina Health Information Exchange (SCHIEx) has been named a finalist in the Interoperability category by Microsoft and the Microsoft Healthcare Users Group (MS-HUG) 2008 Innovation Awards Program. The MS-HUG Healthcare Innovation Awards are presented annually to those healthcare organizations and their technology solutions partners who have best demonstrated industry leadership in using technology to achieve innovation excellence in containing costs and improving the quality of patient care. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA in the Healthcare Industry - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

Google Inc. will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that's likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted to the Internet search leader. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA in a Healthcare World - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Thomson Healthcare NYSE: TOC TSX: TOC today announced the next generation of its decision support tool, Medstat Advantage Suite 4.0(R), based on the leading technology platform in business intelligence. The new release features service-oriented architecture, an application portal, improved production reporting, and dashboard reporting. SOA Healthcare Architect - Architecting SOA in the Healthcare Industry - SOA HEALTHCARE NETWORK << MORE >>

Applying Service-Oriented Architecture to the Healthcare Industry. - SOA Healthcare Architect - SOA in the Healthcare Industry - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>