Technology-enabled #healthcare transformation (via synergy between #entarch, #BPM, #SOA)

Technology-enabled healthcare transformation: concept paper from Alexander Samarin

Concept paper abstract - please contact me of you want to have a look at the full paper and provide your feedback

We believe that healthcare sector needs a disruptive transformation:

• healthcare should be more affordable; 
• healthcare should offer the best possible services for each patient; 
• healthcare should become the centre of the health value-stream; 
• healthcare should seamlessly incorporate innovations; 
• healthcare should be secured by design; 
• healthcare should prevent unjustified proliferation of tools. 

Our experience shows that systems of the complexity as healthcare must be carefully architectured to

• avoid duplications, 
• mitigate execution risks, 
• enable coordination, collaboration and cooperation, 
• build mutual understanding among all participants and 
• explicitly demonstrate how the system will address stakeholders’ concerns. 

To address two essential challenges: 1) “functional silo” nature of the modern healthcare ICT and 2) high level of diversity between IT-enabled healthcare implementation initiatives, this concept paper proposes a platform-based approach for realisation of healthcare platform.

The concept paper explains this approach via a coherent set of the following views:

• Big picture of healthcare 
• Reference functional architecture 
• Enterprise as a system of processes 
• Security enhanced by the use of processes 
• Some participant’s view 
• Platform-based approach 
• Implementation practices 
• Project management practices 
• Multi-layer implementation model 
• Agile solution delivery practices 
• Various technologies around 
• Modernisation of applications to become process-centric 

Majority of those views are briefs on more detailed and proven methodologies and technologies.

The concept paper provides as well a mapping between views and the following stakeholders: Citizens, Patients, Professionals, Healthcare self-regulators, Governmental regulators, Service providers, Medical research, Vendors, Insurance, Information systems architects, Project managers.

Thanks,

AS