striving to to illustrate the components and interactions that architecturally characterize large-scale health information networks. The work was market-motivated by the observation that large integration projects can easily be too large for busy technical staff to get their minds around.
The following constructs among others are very nicely illustrated in the immersive scenes:
- Morphing of the problem space - the participants sytems, parnter enterprises, regulatory factors, and the health info exchange patterns required
- Morphing of the central solution space as a modernization progresses from application silos, to integated apps, to SOA Services
- Use Cases of various interoperability scenarios (such as IHE profiles) and the (animated) interaction sequences they trigger, the components they engage
- Legacy Systems Connectivities, linked call dependencies, service collaborations, and end-to-end flow dependencies.
- EMPI integration by variuos architectural styles - showing the relationships among systems of record and systems of reference
- Mapping of data to the Health Level Seven RIM - Entities, Participations, and Acts (and yes - these are useful patterns for any problem domain!)
- Timeing efficiencies or inefficiecies of various integration configurations - by animating the relative speeds and topologies of protocol sequences
- Progressive modernization and project phasing in seven levels of migration from Siloed Apps to SOA maturity according to the OSIMM from TOG
There is no better way to present an integtration plan for approval by executives and for implementation by staff.
