April 24, 2008
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Intel announces its new SOA Expressway for Healthcare, a software application that provides an efficient
way to exchange healthcare information inside hospitals and with various research labs and health information
networks across the nation.
Intel said that its new product will allow healthcare providers to more easily connect with one another
so that each can provide better care while greatly benefiting from reduced overall integration costs.
In addition, Intel has created a group of validated independent software vendors that provides best-of-breed
capabilities to deploy a complete health network powered by the Intel SOA Expressway. Current validated ecosystem
vendors include Apelon, Infotech Global, Initiate Systems, Oracle and Red Hat.
Services provided by these vendors include controlled medical vocabulary translation, clinical patient portal
applications, enterprise master patient index, clinical data repository and operating system support.
The validated ecosystem helps complete next-generation SOA architecture for healthcare data interoperability.
Until now, the sharing of patient information among healthcare network participants has been hindered by the
steep costs and complexities of proprietary data and integration services. Based on Service Oriented Architecture
(SOA), Intel SOA Expressway for Healthcare offers a cost-efficient solution to this problem by providing an efficient
and scaleable way to translate, process and connect any data format across a healthcare network.
Intel SOA Expressway for Healthcare provides the performance of a hardware appliance in a software form factor
with a lower footprint that offers native message acceleration for rapid data exchange, workflow management and
translation to enable data exchange to and from any original format.
This new breakthrough in software development is an example of how technology can help greatly improve patient
care and further reduce healthcare costs by improving and better streamlining information flow in a timely matter.
Intel's new software solution has been successfully piloted with several healthcare providers, including at a
hospital network in Shanghai. "Intel SOA Expressway for Healthcare solved a very difficult hospital integration
scenario for us," said Shen Ping, general manager of Health Services Division at Wonders Information Co, the
systems integrator deploying the Shanghai health network.
Ping added "we were surprised to see that it was able to meet our performance requirements for daily
synchronization of nearly a million hospital records in a short amount of time."
Intel Software provides resources, technologies, products and services IT system integrators need to create
innovative products and industry-leading software solutions designed to run best on Intel platforms.
"Intel has developed the SOA Expressway for Healthcare as an integrated model that can be used with a wide
variety of existing IT environments to provide world-class integration and software development regardless of
the specific electronic medical records and other software used at individual healthcare facilities," said Renee
James, vice president and general manager of Intel's Software and Solutions Group.
James added "we also leveraged the SOA architecture to drive down costs, which has enabled Intel to offer
our solution at prices comparable or below other solutions in the market."
In order to make Intel SOA Expressway for Healthcare as versatile as possible, Intel designed it as a flexible
product offering that can stand alone as the gateway to and from a community health information network or
can be bundled as part of a total and integrated solution.
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