Networking and Health Information Exchange: Enterprise Architecture

Models

Application Activities, Instructor Guidelines, and Expected Outcomes

Application 1: Read the article at http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~miao/pdf/ehealth.pdf.

What are some examples of how a SOA would improve patient care?

Instructor Guidelines for Application 1: The purpose of this application is to be able to

read an article and learn how a SOA would improve patient care. Answers will vary.

Expected Outcomes for Application 1: Solutions in the article include To improve this
process, the prescriptions could be communicated electronically from the physician to
the pharmacist, and the human computer interfaces for the physicians, nurses,
pharmacists and other healthcare professionals could be voice enabled.

Objectives: 1 & 3

Health IT Workforce Curriculum Networking and Health Information Exchange 1

Version 3.0/Spring 2012 Enterprise Architecture Models

This material Comp9_Unit8 was developed by Duke University, funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of
the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under Award Number IU24OC000024.