Saturday, June 20, 2009

Interoperability of Disparate Systems ...

A system that includes new and old technologies -- partially represented by the use case diagram shown below -- will be the subject of upcoming posts. Interoperability -- technical and semantic -- using open, standard protocols will be my focus.



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For anyone not familiar with use case diagrams, here's a link to an
easy-to-follow introduction to using them and another link to the Wikipedia entry for use case diagrams.

The discussion of technical interoperability will include, but not be limited to, whether to employ Web services with BPEL or ESB (or both) and business activity monitoring (BAM) tools.

The discussion of semantic interoperability will include, but not be limited to, whether to employ HL7 version 3 messages or CDA documents (or both).

Other topics such as service level agreements (SLA), key performance indicators (KPI), telemetry, and telemedicine will be included.