The best practice in this area is to concentrate on creating role-based access points and defining specific steps that healthcare it professionals can take to mitigate unauthorized use of the information (Hickman, Smaltz, 2008). By having a high degree of compliance of it security strategies to governance frameworks, healthcare facilities can ensure all investments in these technologies deliver long-term value.
How feasible is the Web services solution for HIMS? What are some of the challenges and potential solutions?
The growing adoption of development platforms and applications that can enable secure, enterprise-wide access to the full suite of HIMS modules is progressing rapidly. These developments in Web Services development architectures and platforms is also driving the development of entirely new frameworks for it governance in healthcare providers as well (Tan, Payton, 2010). It is today very feasible to have a Web Services solution for an HIMS platform and modules, and many enterprise software companies today are doing this including Oracle, SAP and others.
The challenges to creating a Web Services-based HIMS system center on creating a scalable and secure enough platform to manage the many process workflows inherent in a system of this complexity. Next, the protocol stack of an HIMS system must support multi-role-based modeling and the development of role-based security. There also is the challenge of staying compliant to HIPAA requirements (Tan, Payton, 2010) and the need for staying agile and patient-centered as it investments are made over time in the platform. Finally there is the challenge of creating a Web Service capable of being modular enough to stay responsive to organizational needs while...
There is also the solution of creating a unified messaging bus or architecture that can quickly transmit packets and information across the Web Service quickly and with a high degree of fidelity. All of these potential solutions need to also concentrate on allowing healthcare facilities to modify them to support process workflows unique to their own businesses as well, quantifying overall performance of these in the process (Tan, Payton, 2010). Ultimately these solutions must all be combined to create a unified data architecture flexible enough to stay in step with healthcare providers as they shift strategies over time.
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Hickman, G.T., Smaltz, DH (2008). The Healthcare Information Technology Planning Field book: Tactics, Tools and Templates for Building your it Plan. Chicago: HIMSS. ISBN 978-0-9800697-1-6.
Tan, J., Payton, F.C. (2010). Adaptive Health Management Information Systems: Concepts Cases and Practical Applications (3rd ed.). Boston: Jones and Bartlett. ISBN 13: 978-0-7637-5691-8.
